Manning got a commuted sentence not a pardon. HRC wanted to drone kill Assange in the embassy according to some she demanded it in the WH. I don't know the truth about Assange. There are some strange things.  He reportedly grew up in the same cult as Rose McGowen called "the family". He is the spitting image of Uncle John Trump so much it makes me wonder if the "cult" was a cover for some human cloning venture. He has an odd relationship with Pamela Anderson whose fairly recent interview on Tucker Carlson was way bizarre. She kept fidgeting in her seat and wouldn't look into the camera straight and kept going off on a tangent about sex offender uber drivers when she was supposed to be there as an advocate for Assange.  She is also allegedly closely tied to Soros. I have long wondered if he wasn't deep CI for Q team or whatever.  Was supposed to make military look bad, further erode confidence in US by exposing the awful things people in our govt were doing and set ip Trump for Russiagate.  I think he then flipped the script on them and they've wanted to off him but he has been protected. Anyone remember when some rumored attack team was somehow bodily stopped and sent packing outside the embassy? What if he hasn't even really been there since they "cut his internet"?  I am sure active tunnels still run all over London. I also think Obama admin egged on Trump to run for President and had this idea since 2012... Since Trump for some reason decided to piss him off and call him out on the birth certificate fakery. Obama I think played right into Trump team's hands but thought he was the one setting Trump up. Trump was supposed to be an easy opponent for HRC then they would use Russiagate to destroy his business, reputation, fortune, family and put him in prison.  HRC as president could block all thay we've slowly been learning. I firmly believe Assange is on the side of good but I do think there is a lot of strangeness surrounding him and he has been a deep cover operative setting up some kind of trap we are only catching hints of at this point.