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Chelsea Manning tweets Barack Obama:'Thank you for giving me a chance' Chelsea Manning tweets Barack Obama: 'Thank you for giving me a chance'
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It was only contained nine words, but its sincerity was all too apparent.It was only contained nine words, but its sincerity was all too apparent.
Two days after President Obama announced that he was to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower thanked the man who had both sent her to jail, and ensured her release.Two days after President Obama announced that he was to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower thanked the man who had both sent her to jail, and ensured her release.
“Thank you @BarackObama for giving me a chance. =,),” she wrote on Twitter.“Thank you @BarackObama for giving me a chance. =,),” she wrote on Twitter.
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