Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison after orchestrating the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Today BradleyManning.org released Manning's application for a presidential pardon, as well as a letter from Manning's lawyer and a letter from Amnesty International.

In the application Manning writes that the decisions she made "made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in," before comparing the actions of the U.S. government in the days after the 9/11 attacks to McCarthyism and Japanese-American internment camps.