'Justice has been served': Obama defies storm of criticism over freeing Chelsea Manning - and says it was nothing to do with Julian Assange's tweets

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence because the punishment did not fit the crime. Manning, an army intelligence analyst who shared classified documents with Wikileaks, was sent prison for 35 years. Obama said that was too long, compared to other leakers. 'I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and that a message has still been sent,' the president said.