he did what https://t.co/Jb3UMAYKvO
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 17, 2017
Leaves his party a smoking ash heap and oh hell why not toss another match on his way out the door.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 17, 2017
Good news, everybody! President Obama’s found another way to give us the finger:
BREAKING: Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking to WikiLeaks. She will be freed on May 17. https://t.co/7Y6s55x6OV
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) January 17, 2017
More from the New York Times:
President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.
The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
Now, under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the White House on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed in five months, on May 17 of this year, rather than in 2045.
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Great. That’s just great.
https://twitter.com/cmdeb/status/821466476842389504
Because of course.https://t.co/06HgMrUA59
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) January 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/ThatElJefe/status/821466428125614080
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/821468573570887680
AYFKMWTS?!!! https://t.co/FaSSk2VMMm
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) January 17, 2017
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME https://t.co/x4XEu81JMx
— Neva the #1 American elbow doctor of New Jersey (@pipandbaby) January 17, 2017
Completely indefensible!!!! Manning is a traitor. https://t.co/DxmOdLsjgD
— Seth (@dcseth) January 17, 2017
Pathetic and shameful.
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/821467559820140544
But Russian hackers are a super serious problem. #hypocrisy https://t.co/QeEe0A9QP3
— jon gabriel (@exjon) January 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/821467128985436164
I'm old enough to remember when Democrats blamed WikiLeaks for Hillary losing. Now Obama's commuting the sentence of their American source.
— Seth (@dcseth) January 17, 2017
Unbelievable. Dems can't complain about Wikileaks trying to undermine our country for Russia, then forgive a traitor for helping them do it. https://t.co/inAkIFqgOb
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) January 17, 2017
Bradley Manning is a traitor. And he was just pardoned by President Obama.
Spare me your pseudo-concern over the election.
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) January 17, 2017
Tell me again how President-elect Trump is the biggest danger to the intelligence community ever to sit in the Oval Office.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 17, 2017
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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Updates:
Could Obama letting Manning off the hook actually be bad news for Assange?
Don’t worry! Looks like Obama had a very good reason to free Manning
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