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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
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.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Tom Cotton expresses disappointment over President Obama's decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence.

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