White House: Assange tweet didn’t influence Manning decision

Published January 17, 2017 10:38pm ET



White House officials insisted on Tuesday that a tweet from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had no bearing on President Obama’s decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning.

Chelsea Manning was convicted of leaking sensitive information to WikiLeaks, actions that happened when Manning was known as Bradley Manning.

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