Chelsea Manning, the former US intelligence analyst who was jailed for leaking classified documents, is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for the US senate in Maryland.
Manning will be challenging 74-year-old incumbent Senator Cardin for the Democratic nomination.
Mr Cardin has held the Maryland seat since 2007, and is favourite to retain the seat for a third term in the heavily-Democratic state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42679005
So this is a thing that's happening. What say you NSG, good thing? Bad thing?
Please try to keeping things polite. Manning is a she and she's served her punishment for her crime.