He got the pardon only because the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media  promote transgenderism as normal.   However,  Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment,  and that people who promote sexual reassignment  are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.  Dr. McHugh, these “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”   



As for Pvt Bradley Manning who has changed his name to Chelsea Manning.  Many undercover Afghans  in Afghanistan were killed by the Taliban as a result of his an Wikileaks actions and  a lot of NATO soldiers too lacking  intelligence assets within the Taliban.