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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by peteretep on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:13PM (#13423173) 

    > high crimes
Which these weren't. There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with. cf: Public Interest
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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by stale2002 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:33PM (#13423980)
I am sure that the people that were getting murdered by Gaddafi disagree.
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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by kafkaesq on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:21PM (#13423209)
There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with.

This is, quite frankly, a bizarre equivalence to make.

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