Chelsea Manning Asks President for Clemency and 'First Chance at Life'

>>Part of the reason I did not go out to vote for Clinton was because she was a continuation of Obama's policies; civilian collateral damage from extrajudicial drone strikes, no pardon for Edward Snowden, the possibility of a drawn out proxy war in Syria, as well as no stop to the NSA domestic surveillence program. (Neoliberalism = "Republican lite") You might retort "But Trump! (and his threats of killing families of terrorists, etc)". If Clinton was elected it would've been business as usual, everyone would've gone back to their bread and circuses. Not now though.

Regardless of what you think of Clinton Trump was a far worse alternative on every measure. Trump will be able to dramatically change the supreme court and US federal legislation as well. Complaining about Clinton/Obama doesn't change the simple fact that he is far to the right on her on almost every issue.

>>Sidenote: Trump has already swung moderate, deciding to stick with NATO [2] and keeping most of the ACA after speaking with Obama [3]. Maybe he doesn't stick to those ideals, but its clear Trump the president may not be as bad as Trump the person. I have hope, but I had hope for Sanders as well. (Excitingly enough, the /r/SandersForPresident subreddit was reactived today, with ~210k active subscribers).

Trump CANT keep most of ACA even if he wanted to keep the good parts. The expansion of coverage is paid and supported by the entirety of the law, it doesn't work without all the provisions.

The head of a crime family rarely falls. Their underlings take the falls for them.

The Mark Rich pardon was purely wrong, and yet perhaps not illegal.

They couldn't stick anything on Reagan either.

>> Incidentally, what are the war crimes that were specifically revealed by this leak?

I guess the same as the massive corruption exposed by the brave Julian Assange of the infamous organized criminal organization known as the DNC. What? All the emails occurred after Sanders mathematically lost the nomination? Are you telling me the DNC was trying to support the certain nominee in a general election? Horrible and shocking!

On a related note the DNC scheduled so few debates because they wanted to help Clinton clearly. (Just ignore the fact that the number of debates was comparable to 2008 with far less candidates and a less competitive race.)