[NEMDF]

This helps 0bama set up the theme that leaking, selling, or being generally careless with classified information is really no big deal and should not be considered a “crime”....

[CivilWarBrewing]

"This helps 0bama set up the theme that leaking, selling, or being generally careless with classified information is really no big deal and should not be considered a “crime”.... "

Okay then, let's see ALL of Hillary's emails and the evidence the FBI, DOJ, etc., are withholding from the American people.

[wardamneagle]

WTF is next Barak? How many more 11th hour surprises in the next three days. Worst ever !!!!!

[xzins]

That would justify pardoning Clinton in his mind

[mowowie]

He’s setting up the precedent to pardon clinton.

[pas]

Unless the russians do it.

[daniel1212]

OBAMA: So people can have philosophical views [about Bradley Manning] but I can’t conduct diplomacy on an open source [basis]… That’s not how the world works. And if you’re in the military… And I have to abide by certain rules of classified information. If I were to release material I weren’t allowed to, I’d be breaking the law.

We’re a nation of laws. We don’t let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.

[Q: Didn’t he release evidence of war crimes?]

OBAMA: What he did was he dumped…

Q: Isn’t that just the same thing as what Daniel Ellsberg did?]

OBAMA: No it wasn’t the same thing. Ellsberg’s material wasn’t classified in the same way.

https://shadowproof.com/2011/04/22/obama-on-manning-he-broke-the-law-so-much-for-that-trial/