Cotton: Manning Caused ‘Great Harm’

Published January 17, 2017 11:06pm ET



On CNN, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton expressed disappointment with President Obama’s commutation of Private Chelsea Manning, saying his cooperation with WikiLeaks “caused serious national security harm.”

“I wish Barack Obama would have allowed the military justice system to proceed in due course rather than short circuiting the sentence 28 years before it was set to expire.”

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