Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 years In Jail For WikiLeaks Case

Bradley Manning was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in one of the nation's biggest leak cases since the Pentagon Papers more than a generation ago.

In a brief hearing at Fort Meade, Md., Col. Denise Lind, a military judge, didn't offer any explanation for the sentence.

Manning will be dishonourably discharged from the U.S. military and forfeit some of his pay.(CBC)