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Cartwright, who pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI about conversations he had with reporters relating to the Stuxnet program, a classified US hacking program that used viruses to attack Iran's nuclear program starting in 2009. Cartwright was due to be sentenced on Tuesday, but he will receive a pardon before that happens.
On Tuesday, the Obama administration released a list of pardons that also included baseball legend Willie McCovey, who has been in prison since 1995 for tax evasion, and Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been in prison since 1981 for being a member of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) a group that fought for Puerto Rican independence.
To date, President Obama has granted 1,385 commutations, more than any other president in US history, and more than the last 12 presidents combined.
It has been well documented the involvement of the US government using the drug trade to fund what I believe are called Black Ops.
All out on a pardon, with the knowledge to organize and create a narcotics.
I am sure that they have garnered many contacts during there period of incarceration.
Now they are back out on the so called "streets". I wonder where this will lead to.
Another drug crisis in the US, it's just speculation and maybe another headache for an incoming president that is highly unpopular and has never had a history of substance abuse.
If he was really interested in some form of humanitarian legacy, maybe he could have released the whistleblowers that informed the US public the crimes that have been committed against the US people, the country and the world.