For the president, especially a president who's made so much recently about the danger that WikiLeaks has posed to our national security, to commute Private Manning's sentence, I think it's very disappointing.
Tom Cotton: “For the president, especially a president who's made so much recently about the danger that WikiLeaks has posed to our…”
On the recordJanuary 16, 2017
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Tom Cotton expresses disappointment over President Obama's decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence.
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