Exclusive: President Obama refused to hold “war on terror” torturers to account but punished truth-tellers severely, a bleak legacy not erased by Chelsea Manning’s belated commutation, as Jonathan Marshall explains. By Jonathan Marshall January 17 was an unusually good day…Read more →
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A grassroots effort led by committed activists, which was bolstered by human rights campaigners and prominent individuals, pushed President Barack Obama’s administration to free Chelsea Manning.
21st Century Wire says…
Judging by Julian Assange’s Twitter page activity, it appears as though he may follow through with his promise to agree to US extradition if Obama grants Manning clemency.
Assange’s Lawyer, Melinda Taylor, was quoted in a Wikileaks Tweet (below) that “Everything that he has said, he’s standing by.”
With less than three days left until he leaves office, Barack Obama has commuted Bradley/Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Manning was to be released in 2045 but will now be released in May of this year.
This surprise move is not the morally courageous move that it may appear to be. Obama, content to leave office sans dignity is clearly making a challenge to Julian Assange who recently challenged Obama to pardon Manning in return for Assange voluntarily traveling to the US to face what some would call justice, but anyone would a brain would call a show trial.
The whistleblower is currently serving 30 years in prison.
The West’s “liberal democracies” are undergoing a shift toward repression with new initiatives to spy on citizens and punish whistleblowers who expose government abuses, observes ex-British intelligence officer Annie Machon. By Annie Machon Forgive my “infamously fluent French” but the…Read more →
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