Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

[they don't love you like i love you]

HA HA ASSANGE

[Suburbia]

A+ trolling, Obama

[Suburbia]

Chelsea Manning is crazy anyway. I wonder if he will pardon Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Is a Snowden pardon coming next?

Looks like a no

Man I'm going to miss his bullsh**t.........he's the best.

[Gass3268]

Pres. Obama pardons baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, who pleaded guilty in 1995 to income tax fraud.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Chelsea Manning is crazy anyway. I wonder if he will pardon Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal?

Is Mumia even a federal prisoner? He killed a Philadelphia police officer.

[Green Line]

President Obama has let down his country.  What a disgraceful action.  Good riddance to you.

[JA]

Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican freedom fighter to be freed after spending 36 years in the U.S. prison will also be released

The term you're looking for is "unrepentant violent terrorist".

Again, an utter disgrace as a President and a citizen. It's like he's determined to prove his most unhinged critics correct in his final days.

I love how angry and unhinged this has made people like yourself. This is one of the best things Obama has done; pardoning these individuals was a very good move.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

This thread makes me moist.

[Gass3268]

Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican freedom fighter to be freed after spending 36 years in the U.S. prison will also be released

The term you're looking for is "unrepentant violent terrorist".

Again, an utter disgrace as a President and a citizen. It's like he's determined to prove his most unhinged critics correct in his final days.

I literally copied that from a Puerto Rican news agency.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I hope Zachary Adam Chesser is next.

[Oakvale]

Bad. Could have been worse.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Bad. Could have been worse.

Uh he just called Assange's bluff. How is that bad? I'd release Khalid Sheikh Mohammed if it meant getting Assange.

[RI]

American soldier betrays his country and leaks classified material to WikiLeaks = commutation

Russia leaks non-classified non-governmental emails to WikiLeaks = prepare for nuclear war

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I love Obama so much. I will miss this beautiful era in American history. We may never see one so great ever again.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

[Devout Centrist]

Fair decision

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What a sick parody of a Presidential transition this has become. A traitor to allies and an ally to traitors.

It isn't like you weren't told what Trump was.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

The best part of this is that Julian Assange said he would agree to be extradited now.

Yeah, that's a plus, but you realize he's lying, I'm sure.

Is it technically "lying" if he thinks that president-elect Pussygrabber will give him a wave and a nod for services rendered?

[Ljube]

I love Obama so much. I will miss this beautiful era in American history. We may never see one so great ever again.

On the contrary. The coming ERA OF TRUMP will be even greater.

[nicholas.slaydon]

Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican freedom fighter to be freed after spending 36 years in the U.S. prison will also be released

The term you're looking for is "unrepentant violent terrorist".

Again, an utter disgrace as a President and a citizen. It's like he's determined to prove his most unhinged critics correct in his final days.

I love how angry and unhinged this has made people like yourself. This is one of the best things Obama has done; pardoning these individuals was a very good move.

100% correct

[Dr. Arch]

Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican freedom fighter to be freed after spending 36 years in the U.S. prison will also be released

The term you're looking for is "unrepentant violent terrorist".

Again, an utter disgrace as a President and a citizen. It's like he's determined to prove his most unhinged critics correct in his final days.

I love how angry and unhinged this has made people like yourself. This is one of the best things Obama has done; pardoning these individuals was a very good move.

100% correct

As a native-born Puerto Rican, I can tell you the mood back at the island is pretty positive overall.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good.

[The_Doctor]

OK seriously, you guys rag on Assange for the Wikileaks for the Democratic Convention but Obama's doing a great thing all of a sudden?

I'm not sure that I like this pardon for the same reason that I don't like Assange leaking the information about the Clinton emails. Manning, Snowden, and Assange all leaked classified information to influence the United States' policy. How do you with a straight face say "OK, Assange did a bad thing but not Manning?"

Both the Left and the Right have exhibited behavior in this thread that are directly related to the person committing the action. Some of the Righties in this thread have probably said Assange was doing the right thing in leaking #PodestaEmails and are now blithely denouncing Manning's pardon. Ditto the Left screaming about Assange over the summer and now praising the pardon.

Either find a standard that isn't partisan or own up that you like or hate x and y because of the party label of the President or political actor doing the act.

[Devout Centrist]

OK seriously, you guys rag on Assange for the Wikileaks for the Democratic Convention but Obama's doing a great thing all of a sudden?

I'm not sure that I like this pardon for the same reason that I don't like Assange leaking the information about the Clinton emails. Manning, Snowden, and Assange all leaked classified information to influence the United States' policy. How do you with a straight face say "OK, Assange did a bad thing but not Manning?"

Both the Left and the Right have exhibited behavior in this thread that are directly related to the person committing the action. Some of the Righties in this thread have probably said Assange was doing the right thing in leaking #PodestaEmails and are now blithely denouncing Manning's pardon. Ditto the Left screaming about Assange over the summer and now praising the pardon.

Either find a standard that isn't partisan or own up that you like or hate x and y because of the party label of the President or political actor doing the act.

Snowden and Assange basically fled. Manning, I'm willing to show her more leniency because she's served about seven years and didn't flee like a coward.