That was then. This is now.
In the moments after President Obama commuted the sentence of convicted criminal Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper, host of The Lead, vocalized this disconnect between the White House’s actions versus how they felt when Manning first handed over stolen government documents to WikiLeaks.
Speaking to Bloomberg’s Margaret Talev, Tapper observed that “[i]t’s interesting also because I remember when WikiLeaks happened I was a White House correspondent like you, Margaret and I remember the White House was so outraged” when WikiLeaks published its first set of documents from Manning in February 2010.