On Saturday the White House Committee to Pardon Chelsea Manning held a protest outside the White House calling for Obama to pardon Manning, along with a vigil on Sunday outside of Fort Leavenworth in Kansas where Manning is currently held.
On their Facebook page, the committee wrote, “Our important work together continues after Chelsea was arrested for her courageous effort to reveal the truth about our government’s war crimes, held in abusive tortuous conditions at Quantico, put on trial in a military court, convicted and sentenced to a 35 year sentence in Fort Leavenworth even though those guilty of war crimes and war based on lies and deception are still at large and even profiting from their illegal acts.” – READ MORE
