Summary: The celebrations over President Barack Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning’s 35-year prison sentence have overshadowed what might be a more-consequential development in the government’s long-running war against leakers and whistleblowers: Obama’s pardon of Marine General James Cartwright. Late last year, Cartwright pled guilty to lying to the FBI about disclosing classified information on the Stuxnet computer virus to reporters from The New York Times and Newsweek.
