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American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Barack Obama issued a large number of clemency actions during his presidency: available official counts show he granted 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations for a total often cited as 1,927 acts of clem...
President Barack Obama used his clemency power to issue a large number of and a smaller number of pardons and high-profile individual grants; notable names cited across official lists and media covera...
Barack Obama granted a total of during his presidency, consisting overwhelmingly of , a figure confirmed across multiple compiled lists and summary analyses . Some contemporary summaries and press rel...
Intelligence services from democracies and authoritarian states alike have been implicated—directly or via insiders—in the and related intercept-derived documents to media outlets, most prominently th...
Australia cancelled David Icke’s planned 2019 speaking-tour visa on “character grounds,” using long-standing ministerial and departmental discretion to refuse or revoke entry to non-citizens whose pre...
Barack Obama used clemency far more for commutations—shortening active federal sentences—than for full pardons, granting roughly 1,715 commutations (including hundreds of life‑term reductions) and abo...
President Barack Obama commuted Chelsea Manning’s 35‑year sentence on January 17, 2017, because he concluded the punishment was disproportionate to the offense given the time already served, the human...
Barack Obama issued roughly 1,927 acts of clemency during his presidency — including about 1,715 commutations (many of them for lengthy drug sentences) and 212 pardons — and used commutations far more...