Top adviser to President-elect Trump, Kellyanne Conway said President Obama’s decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning was a pure political play, especially after Obama has spent months criticizing the leak of Democratic information to WikiLeaks.
Manning was convicted of leaking internal military documents to WikiLeaks and sentenced to 35 years in prison, but Obama commuted that sentence on Tuesday. Manning was sentenced to five times the usual length of time for his crimes, and critics of that sentence speculated it was to punish him for the leaks of Edward Snowden.
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