Manning Commuted By Obama, Free In May

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 06:33:43PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html
> https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5okto9/obama_commutes_bulk_of_chelsea_mannings_sentence
> https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/
> 
> President Obama has commuted the majority of the remaining prison
> sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to
> 35 years in military prison in 2013 for leaking hundreds of thousands
> of documents to Wikileaks. Manning will be released on May 17 from
> Fort Leavenworth Military Prison, where she would otherwise have been
> detained until 2045.

Good news.

And Assange is sticking to his end of the deal:
http://theduran.com/breaking-julian-assange-ready-us-extradition-says-lawyer/

Amazing times indeed.


> Pardon Snowden, Drop Assange, etc et al.

Would be nice to see...