CIA Director Mike Pompeo has cancelled a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School after it hired Chelsea Manning as a visiting fellow.
In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment for releasing confidential documents.
The sentence was then commuted by the then-President Obama to seven years. “My conscience and duty to the men and women of the CIA will not permit me to betray their trust by appearing to support Harvard’s decision with my appearance at tonight’s event,” Pompeo said in a letter to the Ivy league university.