Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., on Tuesday evening issued a scathing statement in response to President Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning and the transfer of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard from Guantanamo Bay.
“President Obama has commuted the sentence of a traitor who leaked thousands of classified documents, putting our national security and our men and women in uniform at risk,” Cheney said in a statement.
“Documents provided to Wikileaks were used by Osama bin Laden to gain information on the U.S. battle plan in Afghanistan. Today we also learned President Obama recently released one of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards from Guantanamo. Barack Obama has chosen to end his presidency the same way he began it — aiding America’s enemies.”
Cheney is a first-term lawmaker as the state’s at-large congresswoman and the daughter of former Vice President to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney. The statement is one of many from Congress on Tuesday decrying the Obama administration for commuting more than 100 sentences.
