U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, has asked President Trump to consider pardoning former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before leaving office. So has U.S. Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia. (Read about it HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE for some context.)

The effort wasn’t worth an item in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or on NPR, for whom Gabbard is a non-person and Greene primarily a QAnon-promoting conspiracy theorist.

Gabbard, one of the Democratic presidential aspirants who lost their party’s nomination to former Vice President Joe Biden, is leaving office herself after four terms as a Congresswoman.

Author Edward Curtin recommended the pardons to the president as well. “If Trump is truly the opponent of the Deep State, the Swamp, the corrupt establishment, he will pardon Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden who have been persecuted by these forces,” Curtin writes, HERE.

NOTE: Curtin doesn’t believe Trump is any such thing. NOTE: In Janauary 2017 then-President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Manning, who was serving as 35-year term for leaking Army documents; as is explained HERE, this was not a pardon.

— Mark Channing Miller