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Pence: Manning Commutation A Mistake

Called Manning a "traitor" on Wednesday night.

Vice president-elect Mike Pence slammed the decision by President Obama to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence this week. “To commute Private Manning’s sentence was a mistake. Private Manning is a traitor and should not have been turned into a martyr, as Senator Cotton said,” Pence told Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday. “Private Manning’s actions compromised our national security, endangered American personnel downrange, compromised individuals in Afghanistan who were cooperating with our forces by leaking 750,000 documents to WikiLeaks.” Pence was then pressed as to whether Donald Trump's administration would prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and said that the U.S. would “bring to bear the law on his actions and hold him accountable.”