Chelsea Manning Files Presidential Pardon Request

November 10, 2020 by SOMINSFASHIONBLOG

Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s legal team filed her request for a presidential pardon on Tuesday.

The pardon document will be available starting Wednesday at pardon.bradleymanning.org, the Private Manning Support Network said.

Manning was sentenced late last month to 35 years for releasing a trove of government and military documents to WikiLeaks. Immediately after the sentencing, Manning’s legal team announced that they would be proceeding with an appeal for a presidential pardon or, at the very least, a commutation of the sentence by President Obama.

In a statement read by attorney David Coombs on the day of her sentencing, Manning said

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Much media coverage this week has been on the build-up to possible war on Syria, but Manning’s plight is not unconnected, as Norman Solomon writes. In his op-ed “What the Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria,” Solomon explains how “without whistleblowers” like Manning, “the mainline media outlets are more transfixed than ever with telling the official story. And at a time like this, the official story is all about spinning for war on Syria.” Solomon continued:

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