{"id":22455,"date":"2017-01-12T21:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22455"},"modified":"2017-01-12T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:51:45","slug":"assange-agrees-to-extradition-if-obama-grants-chelsea-manning-clemency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22455","title":{"rendered":"Assange Agrees To Extradition If Obama Grants Chelsea Manning Clemency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assange Agrees To Extradition If Obama Grants Chelsea Manning Clemency<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Just hours after NSA Whistleblower Edward\u00a0Snowden urged President Obama to “save [Chelsea Manning’s] life by granting her clemency,”\u00a0<\/strong>Wikileaks’ founder\u00a0Julian Assange<\/a>\u00a0says he will agree to be extradited to the United States if the president grants clemency to the former US soldier Chelsea Manning<\/strong>, who is currently serving a 35-year sentence for leaking documents.<\/p>\n

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The US Constitution allows a president to pardon “offenses against the United States” and commute — either shorten or end — federal sentences. Obama has so far granted 148 pardons since taking office in 2009 — fewer than his predecessors, who also served two terms, George W. Bush (189) and Bill Clinton (396).\u00a0But he has surpassed any other president in the number of commutations, 1,176.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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We noted previously\u00a0<\/a>that there was a number of high profile cases in front of President Obama as he prepares to leave The White House including Edward Snowden who tweeted yesterday…<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Edward Snowden<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2714<\/span><\/span>@Snowden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning. You alone can save her life.
\n8:43 AM – 11 Jan 2017<\/p>\n

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And now,\u00a0as AFP reports<\/a>, Wikileaks’ founder\u00a0Julian Assange has offered himself up if President Obama releases Manning<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>WikiLeaks<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2714<\/span><\/span>@wikileaks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case\u00a0https:\/\/<\/span>twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/765626997057921025\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

2:40 PM – 12 Jan 2017<\/a><\/div>\n
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Assange has been\u00a0living in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Australian former computer hacker said he fears Stockholm will in turn extradite him to the US, where he angered Washington over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of US military and diplomatic documents leaked by former US soldier Manning.<\/div>\n

Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence in solitary confinement for handing over the 700,000 sensitive documents from the US State Department.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assange Agrees To Extradition If Obama Grants Chelsea Manning Clemency Just hours after NSA Whistleblower Edward\u00a0Snowden urged President Obama to “save [Chelsea Manning’s] life by granting her clemency,”\u00a0Wikileaks’ founder\u00a0Julian Assange\u00a0says he will agree to be extradited to the United States if the president grants clemency to the former US soldier Chelsea Manning, who is currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9847,249,2001,551,577,584,827,838],"class_list":["post-22455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-edward-snowden","tag-julian-assange","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-obama","tag-united-states","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22456,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions\/22456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}