Liberman says Obama decision on Manning 'a shame' given Pollard case

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman criticizes US President Barack Obama’s decision to commute Chelsea Manning’s sentence, saying it’s “a shame” she is getting better treatment than Jonathan Pollard.

Earlier this week, Obama decided to pardon Manning, a former US military analyst who received a 35-year prison sentence in 2013 for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks organization in 2010.

Speaking at a Netanyahu College conference, Liberman says the decision to release Manning in May is unfair, when one considers the case of Pollard, who served a 30-year sentence for giving information “to a friend of the US.”

— Judah Ari Gross