Secretary of Defense Ash Carter opposed President Obama’s decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, according to a report.

The opposition to letting Manning off the hook for violating the Espionage Act came during internal administration deliberations into the decision, ABC News said on Tuesday.

Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence for giving classified documents to Wikileaks, received the pardon just days before the inauguration of President elect Donald Trump.

The classified information leaked by Manning is believed by some US officials to have put foreign diplomats in danger and damaged America’s relations across the globe.

But it was hailed by Wikileaks, the online news group that first published Manning’s information.

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