Mr. President, please give me time served

From Chelsea Manning's Clemency Statement:

"I take full and complete responsibility for my decision to disclose these materials to the public."

"I pleaded guilty without the protection of a plea agreement because I believed the military justice system would understand my motivation for the disclosure and sentence me fairly. I was wrong: The military judge sentenced me to thirty-five years confinement — far more than I could have ever imagined possible, as there was no historical precedent for such an extreme sentence under similar facts…"

"I have since been placed in solitary confinement as a disciplinary measure for an attempted suicide despite a growing effort — led by the President of the United States — to stop the use of solitary confinement for any purpose."

"I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. The sole relief am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members."

"I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the USDB as the person I was born to be."
Who is Chelsea Manning?

Chelsea E. Manning is a former all-source intelligence analyst for the U.S. Defense Department. She writes extensively for The Guardian and on Medium about issues like transparency, free speech, civil liberties, queer and trans rights, and computer security, as well...Read more

Solitary and Suicide

As President Obama explains in his Op-Ed for the Washington Post: “Research suggests that solitary confinement has the potential to lead to devastating, lasting psychological consequences. It has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with...Read more

Press

BREAKING NEWS Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence by Charlie Savage, for The New York Times “Short List” Articles Articles about the #timeserved campaign launch. Articles about the Whitehouse.gov petition reaching 100,000 signatures. “Shortlist” Articles –...Read more

Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg

“Ms. Manning was incarcerated at Quantico for just under one year under conditions the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture called ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading.’ Now, she has been ordered to spend another seven days in solitary confinement as a punishment...Read more

Morris Davis
Morris Davis

“PFC Manning was incarcerated at Quantico under conditions the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture called ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading’ and that led to the resignation of then State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley (Colonel, U.S. Army, retired) after he called...Read more

Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald

“Chelsea is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, empathetic and compassionate people l have ever met in my life… In the face of differences or even tension and hostility from others, her instinct is to attempt to see the world...Read more