Obama's final press conference: Chelsea Manning commutation is 'appropriate'

President says he is ‘comfortable’ with decision and does not see contradiction between pardon and accusations of Russian hacking of US electionManning to go free in May after Obama commutes majority of sentenceBarack Obama has defended as “entirely appropriate” his decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, arguing that the whistleblower behind one of the largest breaches of classified information in US history had served a tough but adequate prison sentence.&l