On Tuesday, President Obama used what was left of his executive authority to commute the sentence of Bradley Manning, the notorious transgender army traitor who provided purloined and classified U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He is accused of leaking roughly 150,000 diplomatic cables, 750,000 documents total, many of which are of vital national security interest to the United States. He provided the stolen documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. WikiLeaks then published the documents for the world to see; that includes America’s enemies.
Manning was convicted by court martial in July 2013 to 35 years in jail after being charged with violations against the Espionage Act by the army. In other words, he was effectively guilty of treason. That sort of offense used to take a man to the firing squad. Well, not anymore.
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