On January 17, 2017, as one of the final acts of his presidency, Barack Obama commuted the sentence of 74-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera, the Puerto Rican nationalist who had served 35 years of a 55-year conviction for the crime of “seditious conspiracy,” as well as attempted robbery, explosives and vehicle-theft charges. Thanks to Obama’s intercession, […]
Obama’s Pardon of Gen. James Cartwright Is a New Twist in the War on Leaks…
Late last year, Cartwright pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about disclosing classified information on the Stuxnet computer virus to reporters from the New York Times and Newsweek. The former general, a vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was known as Obama’s “favorite general,” was due to be sentenced this month […]
