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Re:Obama is seriously considering a pardon for Chelsea Manning by dvdhnt on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @10:10PM (#13379559)
What great service did he do?

And mistreated? Perhaps, but not any more, and certainly quite less given the media scrutiny, than any generic prisoner.

There are plenty of more deserving souls out there, people like this -

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mom-of-young-man-jail...

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5lc9z3/justice_dept_l...

Or intervene on behalf of people who take a deal for the sake of not being able to defend themselves.

http://www.innocenceproject.org

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Re:Obama is seriously considering a pardon for Chelsea Manning by ionised on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:29AM (#13381699)
Exposed American war crimes?

https://www.chelseamanning.org/learn-more/collateral-murder-...

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Re:Obama is seriously considering a pardon for Chelsea Manning by vinay427 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:07AM (#13381359)
The first two links you posted don't seem to apply, as far as I know, because the President can only pardon people convicted of federal crimes against the US.

Source: http://www.legalflip.com/Article.aspx?id=61&pageid=321

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