Nicky ... come back!! With your links/sources, to your, er, statements.
Have you ever heard of Chelsea Manning?
Five Reasons that President Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
>a href="https://theweek.com/articles/673814/why-obama-commuted-chelsea-mannings-sentence">Why Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence [Anti-Trump Move]
Excerpts:
Obama may have been "motivated by humanitarian considerations" or a debt of gratitude to his LGBT supporters, CNN's Stephen Collinson suggests, or "he may also have reasoned that with President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, the chances of Manning winning release for years to come were slim."
But, whatever reasons he gives, it would be a mistake to take the Manning commutation as an isolated event. And it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see this as part of Obama's last-minute push to "baby-proof America before Trump takes over," in The Daily Show's arch phraseology.
o maybe pardoning Cartwright and commuting Manning's sentence is Obama's way of encouraging civil servants and people with access to blow the whistle on Trump like their country depended on it, even as his own administration prosecuted those who leaked national security secrets.
This is a huge victory for Obama and the deep state.
Five Reasons that President Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
Why Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence [Anti-Trump Move]
Excerpts:
Obama may have been "motivated by humanitarian considerations" or a debt of gratitude to his LGBT supporters, CNN's Stephen Collinson suggests, or "he may also have reasoned that with President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, the chances of Manning winning release for years to come were slim."
But, whatever reasons he gives, it would be a mistake to take the Manning commutation as an isolated event. And it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see this as part of Obama's last-minute push to "baby-proof America before Trump takes over," in The Daily Show's arch phraseology.
o maybe pardoning Cartwright and commuting Manning's sentence is Obama's way of encouraging civil servants and people with access to blow the whistle on Trump like their country depended on it, even as his own administration prosecuted those who leaked national security secrets.
This is a huge victory for Obama and the deep state.