Tom Cotton: Commuting Chelsea Manning ‘Very Disappointing’

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COTTON: "I am very surprised. Chelsea Manning pleaded guilty to very serious crimes leaking highly classified information that put at risk the lives of our troops and our diplomats, our intelligence officers, allies who helped us around the world. This was grave harm to our national security and Chelsea manning is serving a sentence and should continue to serve that sentence. There will be time to review her sentence and seek a parole in the future. And according to Normal criminal procedures. But for the president, especially a president who has made so much recently about the danger that Wikileaks has posed our national security to commute manning's sentence I think is disappointing."