Presidential Pardons
 

"President Obama largely commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, an Army private convicted in 2013 of taking secret diplomatic and military documents and disclosing them to WikiLeaks.

Obama also granted a full and complete pardon to Ret. Marine General James E. Cartwright for lying to the FBI in a probe of a leak of classified information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program. A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was known as Obama’s favorite general, Cartwright pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced last week to two years in prison.

In addition, Obama granted clemency to about 200 low-level drug offenders who were sentenced under harsh drug laws and would have received lighter sentences if convicted today. In all, the president commuted 209 individuals and pardoned another 64. He is expected to grant more drug commutations on Wednesday.

Manning will be set free in five months on May 17 this year instead of in 2045, under the terms of Obama’s commutation." WaPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.55ffaa45deb1

That oughta piss off the RW nutters. Good. Maybe he'll give Trump and his Putin apologists a pardon too? :rolleyes:

I don't agree with the Manning commutation. However, there is an interesting twist:

Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who has been in exile for nearly half-decade in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, says he will agree to extradition to the United States in exchange for clemency for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

http://www.usnews.com/news/national-...n-assange-says

If Assange is extradited to the US, it'll be interesting to see how the Trump Justice Department handles it.

Please explain.

Nyet, tovarich. ;)

Snowden next?

Manning got time and will have a record.

I'm ready to move on.


Barney

So long as he doesn't pardon or commute Leonard Peltier? I'm great with fixing wrongs or laying aside egregious sentences.

Obama might be a few chess moves ahead of Trump.

If Obama pardons Manning for stealing the information it would be hard to see how much could be done to Assange for putting it out there.

The sexual whatever is a Swedish matter which was likely instigated by the U.S. anyway.

I doubt Obama has ever been a chess move ahead of anybody other than Democrat voters.

Osama Bin Laden begs to differ.

I could hear conservative heads exploding all over the area yesterday at the new.....