Good. Manning should have been given a medal not a conviction. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html
Originally shared by John Hardy
Obama: last chance to get something right.
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i wholeheartedly agree John. Very well said.
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Of course, of all the things Obama could have done with his last days, this is the least consequential. Good for Chelsea Manning, obviously, but with very little impact on anything else.
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I might be too cynical regarding Obama, but why isn’t he releasing her now? Why schedule the release during Trump’s mandate? Looks like a pr move.
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It is clearly and unmistakably a PR move.
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Certainly it’s far from consequential. Manning was mainly collateral damage. I’m just pleased for her personally.
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Sadly, he just commuted his sentence, he didn’t give him a full pardon.
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Just heard Obama’s remarks today, and it’s even worse:
Obama said Wednesday that he granted clemency to Manning because she had gone to trial, taken responsibility for her crime and received a sentence that was harsher than other leakers have received. He emphasized that he had merely commuted her sentence, not granted a pardon, which would have symbolically forgiven her for the crime.
“I feel very comfortable that justice has been served,” Obama said.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/obama-defends-decision-to-commute-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html
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He certainly stands with the State. The People got nothing to do with it.
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Sadly a lot of people will see this and think of it as Obama having pardoned Manning, so he gets that perception from the left, while he let Manning rot in prison for 7 years and still didn’t do the right thing in the end.
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Chris Knutson
Not to mention that, most likely, Manning won’t walk free in May, when Trump’s neoconservatives will be in power. This is just a cold hearted, calculated move from Obama so he can later say that he tried, but the bad reps didn’t let him (as he has been doing for 8 years).
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