re: #107 HappyWarrior

Yep, they’d use it to validate their whole “Obama is soft on national security” bs that they’ve been doing for years. Honestly, I think Manning’s sentence was fair. As pointed out, he could be out in six and a half years on parole. I think there are literally hundreds of prisoners who Obama should consider pardoning before Manning.

Probably thousands. There’s lots of people who are serving long sentences for drug crimes due to draconian minimum sentencing guidelines the DOJ is no longer trying to keep in play. Many of these folks deserve sentence reduction more than Manning.

Never going to happen, of course. A Democratic party politician cannot afford to be seen as soft on crime or weak on national security.