Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, soldier convicted for leaking classified information

The Washington Post: President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, an Army private convicted in 2013 of taking troves of secret diplomatic and military documents and disclosing them to WikiLeaks.

Obama also granted a full and complete pardon to Ret. Marine General James E. Cartwright for lying to the FBI in a probe of a leak of classified information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear program. A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was known as Obama’s favorite general, Cartwright pleaded guilty in October and faced a request by prosecutors for a two-year prison term sentencing in two weeks.

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