Facing the Music: Doing the Crime, Doing the Time and the Long Shadow of the 1917 Espionage Act

If you break the laws (Socrates has been found guilty), you must accept the state’s remedy (in this case, execution). On May 20, 2013, he flew to Hong Kong, where he leaked thousands of classified NSA documents to four journalists. At the same time, the U.S. government unsealed indictments charging him with conspiracy (with Manning) and violations of the Espionage Act. She had helped WikiLeaks release 750,000 classified documents, and unclassified but highly sensitive documents. Sentenced to 35 years in prison, Manning was incarcerated from 2010-2017, when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama.