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Disappointing. >> the human rights organizations like amnesty said chelsea manning was exposing human rights abuses and already had been over sentenced because the military through the court martial process wanted to make an example of her. what do you make of that argument? >> well, hundreds of thousands of pages of highly classified information were disclosed and theres no doubt that it caused grave harm to our national security. and its important that we have a deterrent effect by stiff penal...

Potential involvement in the russian hacking of the presidential election. this was many years ago, but it was the first a lot of people heard of wikileaks. the information that the u.s. government says chelsea manning wrongfully and illegally took turned up in wikileaks to a large extent. the pentagon was absolutely furious. they made every effort to prosecute to the full extent of the law. in no small part to send a signal to others that they cannot do this. remember, manning was relatively lo...

Comes against this broader backdrop of wikileaks role in dealing with the american military, the national security community intelligence, and i think the big question is how can this be seen other than a potential victory for wikileaks. well have to see what julian assange has to say about it all. >> thats right. and, michelle kosinski at the white house, im looking at a petition here from amnesty calling for pardon or commutation for chelsea manning. their argument was that chelsea manning was...