Obama: Chelsea Manning Commutation Was 'Entirely Appropriate'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 18, 2017, 2:50 PM EDT
President Barack Obama said at his final press conference on Wednesday that "it made sense to commute" Chelsea Manning's sentence rather than pardon her.
"Chelsea Manning has served a tough prison sentence," Obama told reporters. "It has been my view that given she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence."
He said that he felt "very comfortable" about the precedent he set by commuting the bulk of Manning's remaining sentence.
"I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and that a message has still been sent," Obama said. "Wherever possible, we need folks who may have legitimate concerns about the actions of government or their superiors or the agencies in which they work, that they try to work through the established channels and avail themselves of the whistleblower protections that have been put in place."
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