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His administration also prosecuted more whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act, than all of his predecessors combined.
by satori99 7y ago
His administration also prosecuted more whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act, than all of his predecessors combined.
- ceejayoz 7y agoFor a grand total of eleven prosecutions since 1945. https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-/ https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10... Twice of nearly nothing is still nearly nothing... and the claim being made here was that Manning, specifically, was mistreated by Obama. Manning was convicted under Bush and had her sentence commuted by Obama; I'm dubious that the specific case can be taken as "Obama mean to Manning".
- ndarwincorn 7y ago>convicted under Bush What kind of revisionist history is this? She didn't whistleblow until 2010. She wasn't convicted until 2013. Hell she wasn't even assigned to intelligence under Bush. I remember arguing with my family (lifelong Democratic party members who aren't as leftist as me) that she was fulfilling Obama's transparency promises for him. Promises it was clear he wouldn't be keeping as early as the Telco immunity bill during the 08 primary.
- ceejayoz 7y agoMy apologies, that's me mixing up dates of Obama's presidency for some reason. You're right.