President Obama has commuted most of the 35-year prison term of U.S. intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning, whose disclosures were coveted by then-al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Manning is set to be freed this May after the president’s order on Tuesday. The White House indicated in recent days that Obama was considering the move, downplaying Manning’s actions in comparison to those of Edward Snowden, who had also petitioned for clemency. Per the New York Times, Press Secretary Josh Earnest granted that while the documents Manning provided to WikiLeaks were “damaging to national security, the ones Mr. Snowden disclosed were ‘far more serious and far more dangerous.’ (None of the documents Ms. Manning disclosed were classified above the merely “secret” level.)”