Mayor Pete: Obama should have left Chelsea Manning to rot in prison for 35 years

Cory Doctorow 5:06 pm Wed Nov 20, 2019

Here's a spicy take! South Bend, Indiana Mayor and would-be Democratic presidential nominee Pete Buttigieg told CBS that he was "troubled" that Obama extended clemency to the whistleblower Chelsea Manning, freeing her from the prison where she had been tortured and incarcerated for upholding her oath to defend the Constitution by revealing evidence of US war crimes.

He also dislikes Ed Snowden.

Buttigieg told CBS News Radio on the sidelines of the South by Southwest Festival where he spoke over the weekend that he was "troubled" by former President Obama's decision to commute the 35-year prison sentence for Chelsea Manning days before he left office in 2017.

2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg "troubled" by clemency for Chelsea Manning [Steve Dorsey/CBS]

(Thanks, Kathy Padilla!)

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