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It's doubtful that the Obama admin would have gone this route. There have been quite a few stories that they shied away from such a drastic extension of the def
by matt4077 7y ago
It's doubtful that the Obama admin would have gone this route. There have been quite a few stories that they shied away from such a drastic extension of the definition of 'Espionage'.
Pardoning Manning also doesn't quite with the idea of the (previous) US admin being too invested in punishing Wikileaks.
- Nasrudith 7y agoExcept it wasn't a pardon but a commutation - General Petreaus got an actual pardon for spilling secrets to his biographer he was having an affair with - an obvious position for a honeypot. That still shows a less than friendly attitude to whistleblowers and a hypocritical double standard of holding those in power to a far lower standard. It stinks of cynical "we just want the bad PR to go away but don't want to say she did the right thing" so just commuting to validate the court ruling. Meanwhile Petreaus we should assert that the ruling class are seperate and should be sancrosanct - pardon!