President Obama’s decision Tuesday to commute the 35-year prison sentence of Pfc. Chelsea, née Bradley, Manning will be celebrated on the left as a vindication of a well-intentioned whistleblower whose imprisonment at Ft. Leavenworth as a transgender woman was a travesty of justice. The real travesty is the show of leniency for a progressive cause célèbre whose actions put hundreds of lives at risk. For those who need reminding, Manning was stationed in Iraq as a low-level intelligence analyst when he gained access to...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 18, 2017 00:38 UTC