THE HERALD FRIDAY JANUARY 20 2017
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Chelsea has been forced to endure such abusive treatment in prison. "We agree with the UN Special
Rapporteur Juan Mendez that some of this abuse amounted to torture. We sincerely do hope that Chelsea will now be able to get on with the rest of her life and that she finds happiness and fulfilment in whatever she chooses to do. "There will always be a welcome
for her here in Wales. We will not be giving any interviews to the media and ask to be left in peace and for our privacy to be respected." Chelsea’s aunt, Mrs Staples, told
The Herald: “What really hurt me was the treatment Chelsea received in Quantico two years before the trial: stripped naked, kept in solitary confinement, made to stand in a corner, everything taken away.” “She has been punished for
releasing information, but whatever happened to the people responsible - the people in that helicopter gunship for instance - were they punished? That always plays heavily on my mind.”
REACTION IN AMERICA Nancy Hollander, Manning’s
lawyer, spoke to a reporter from The Guardian before she had even had the chance to pass on to the soldier the news of her release. “Oh my God!” was Hollander’s instant response to the news which she had just heard from the White House counsel. “I cannot believe it – in 120 days she will be free and it will all be over. It’s incredible.” But some in the USA have
not been so enthusiastic. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, described it as a 'grave mistake which will encourage further acts of
espionage and undermine military discipline. It also devalues the courage of real whistle-blowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable'. McCain added: “I think that is a
sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan, also a Republican, called it 'outrageous'. In America, a pardon not only
lifts the sentence but removes other penalties such as the bar on convicted felons sitting on federal juries, and state-level prohibitions on such things as voting or possession of firearms. A commutation means the sentence is lifted but the civil handicaps outlined above remain. Neither a pardon nor a commutation is an acknowledgement of innocence. Mr Obama has commuted 1,385 sentences and issued 212 pardons, more than the total granted by the past 12 presidents combined.
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