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Obama Commutes Sentence of General James Cartwright

HeadlineJan 18, 2017

On Tuesday, Obama also commuted the sentence of retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. Last year, Cartwright admitted he lied to the FBI during an investigation into who leaked classified information to The New York Times about Stuxnet, a secret U.S. cyberwarfare operation against Iran. According to Yahoo News, Cartwright was the 10th person to be criminally charged under President Obama in a case related to classified disclosures—more, by far, than were brought by any president before him. We’ll have more on the commutations of Chelsea Manning and Oscar López Rivera after headlines.

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