OBAMA COMMUTES SENTENCE OF SECRETS LEAKER CHELSEA MANNING

President Obama commuted the sentence of Wikileaks document leaker Chelsea Manning on Tuesday. In 2010, Manning, then an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army by the name of Bradley Manning, leaked an enormous batch of classified documents to Julian Assange and Wikileaks that exposed major military and diplomatic activities being conducted by the U.S. government. Manning was arrested and has been in military prison ever since. In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Following her conviction, Manning revealed that she was transgender and changed her name from Bradley to Chelsea. She requested a transfer from Fort Leavenworth to a civilian prison, where she could begin her transition. While her transfer was denied, the army did agree to her request for gender reassignment surgery in 2016, an operation that will now be performed after Manning’s release from Fort Leavenworth on May 17.
* Yet Obama won’t set poor Jon Lovitz free from doing time on The New Celebrity Apprentice.
* Now Hillary keeps calling.
* “Mrs. Clinton, will you please stop phoning the president?” “Well, pardon me!”
* That’s a dirty trick – releasing a transgender person right now. “The good news – you’re going free. The bad news – guess who’s president?”
* For a sec I thought, “Uh oh. Is Chelsea Handler in trouble again?”
* That’s the problem with giving General Petraeus a break. Now everybody wants one.
* If you want something out there, the first thing you do these days is mark it classified.
* He’s going ahead with gender reassignment now? So this was great news for him but terrible news for his penis.