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Headline Roundup January 18th, 2017

Obama Reduces Sentence for Manning

Summary from the AllSides News Team

US President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to Wikileaks in 2010. The 29-year-old transgender US Army private, born Bradley Manning, will be freed on 17 May instead of her scheduled 2045 release.

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Chelsea Manning’s commutation is part of a historic year in reducing prison sentences
Chelsea Manning’s commutation is part of a historic year in reducing prison sentences

Vox

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A quiet but significant Obama criminal justice accomplishment: using the pardon power to get people out of prison sooner.

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Obama should pardon Snowden as well as Manning
Obama should pardon Snowden as well as Manning

The Hill

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President Obama’s brave and principled decision to commute Chelsea Manning’s remaining 35-year prison sentence highlights the equally strong need to pardon whistleblower Edward Snowden. Offering a pardon for Snowden on the eve of Trump’s inauguration would not only be equally brave and principled, it would restore the value of truth and ethics at a time when these essential elements of democracy are more necessary, and more precarious, than ever before.

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Top Congressional Republicans condemn Chelsea Manning decision
Top Congressional Republicans condemn Chelsea Manning decision

Fox News Digital

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Top Congressional Republicans condemned Tuesday the decision by President Barack Obama to commute former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified documents.

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