On CNN, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton expressed disappointment with President Obama’s commutation of Private Chelsea Manning, saying his cooperation with WikiLeaks “caused serious national security harm.”
“I wish Barack Obama would have allowed the military justice system to proceed in due course rather than short circuiting the sentence 28 years before it was set to expire.”
In a statement, earlier Cotton said: “When I was leading soldiers in Afghanistan, Private Manning was undermining us by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. I don’t understand why the president would feel special compassion for someone who endangered the lives of our troops, diplomats, intelligence officers, and allies.”
