Russian "election hack" narrative falls apart in light of Chelsea Manning clemency.
We applaud Obama for commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning from 35 years to 7 years.
Army soldier, Chelsea
Manning was convicted in 2013 of leaking hundreds of thousands (some
counts have the number at 750,000) classified documents about US
national security activities to WikiLeaks.
Those documents included diplomatic cables, military
intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and video files showing US strikes
against “terrorists”, and in one instance showing strikes that killed
two Reuters journalists.
By granting Manning clemency, Obama admits that the
massive leak of classified intelligence information (arguably the most
damning US intelligence leak ever) was damaging, but not so damaging as
to warrant a 35 year prison sentence.
Certainly Manning’s intelligence leak is magnitudes worse a
leak (in relation to US national security) than the John Podesta emails,
that have the entire US establishment up in arms and pleading for a
heavy retaliation.
Keep in mind that Chelsea Manning has pleaded
guilty and admitted to the intelligence breach. No evidence has ever
been provided to the public that proves the Russian state was behind the
Podesta or DNC document leak.
Which brings us to this argument.
The Democrat Party, and their outgoing President Barack
Obama, are gravely concerned about “Russian election hacking”, concerned
enough to impose sanctions on Russia, expel Russian diplomats, and even
call for a “war-like” response towards Russia, with no evidence.
How
does Obama, and his party, explain the sudden about face on Manning,
and their forgiveness for Manning’s intelligence “betrayal”, that
jeopardized the “fabric of US democracy” and “endangered US national
security”?
Are we to
believe that John Podesta’s emails as worthy enough for conflict with
Russia, but Manning’s classified document release, that exposed the
highest level of US military intelligence information, is now considered
forgivable?
Or can we simply conclude that Obama’s “red scare” is simply a political ploy to damage President-elect Trump,
and excuse Hillary Clinton (and the Democrat Party) from running the
most pathetic election in history…because the false narrative that John
Podesta’s email leak threatens to destroy “US democracy”, has know
fallen completely apart.
Source: Zero Hedge
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