Obama is letting some people out of their sentences that have ruined any vestige of a legacy, NEW YORK MAGAZINE:
In addition to freeing Chelsea Manning, President Obama granted 208 other commutations and 64 pardons Tuesday — among them General James Cartwright. The decorated general and former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about leaking classified information to journalists about U.S. covert efforts against Iran’s nuclear program.
Cartwright’s pardon will spare him from sentencing next month. His defense team had asked for a year of probation and 600 hours of community service, but prosecutors were pushing for a two-year prison sentence.
Obama has now granted more commutations — a total of 1,385 individuals — than any other president in U.S. history….
YOUNG CONSERVATIVES notes who was lobbying for this killers release:
…But FALN bombs killed several people and wounded dozens more.
His sentence was compounded in 1988 when he tried to escape prison in a plot that included the plan to murder prison guards.
He has never renounced his declaration of being an enemy of the United States.
Freeing Lopez-Rivera became a cause celebre among leftists and celebrities, among them Lin Manuel Miranda, the star of the Broadway show, “Hamilton”.
Miranda personally lobbied Obama to free Lopez-Rivera.
