Chelsea Manning thanks Obama in first appearance since release

Chelsea Manning sat down for an interview with ABC News for the first time since her release from prison. Back in May 2010, Manning was arrested for leaking confidential documents while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. In the interview with ABC, she thanked Obama after her sentence was commuted in the final days of his position in office. "I've been given a chance. That's all I asked for was a chance. That's it, and now this is my chance," Manning came out as transgender and tried to commit suicide twice while incarcerated at the men's military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. She managed to get the help of the ACLU to begin hormone treatment when the military initially denied her treatment for gender dysphoria. In regards to the leak, she told ABC: “[It was my] responsibility to the public. Anything I've done, it's me. There's no one else. No one told me to do this. Nobody directed me to do this. This is me. It's on me."