Next week to three sees a media blitz, then dies down.
Henceforth, every time an issue arises with Obama, Manning will come out of the woodwork until that issue is forgotten.
Bank on it.
I think the Chelsea gamble....getting into a federal prison instead of a military prison...is a gimmick that will not work. The president will look like an idiot if he signs off on this. Almost every single GI convicted over the remaining three years...will try the same trick and the judges will be extremely upset over the fact that these folks will be denied while Chelsea was approved.
The best that Chelsea can hope for....is that the President issues some order in his last week at the White House, and trims off ten years from the sentence.