Rep. Ilhan Omar, human rights attorney Steven Donziger and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg joined calls for Biden to pardon Daniel Hale.
“It appears he was singled out for a really harsh sentence because, in my opinion, it’s sort of proportional to the degree of embarrassment that he caused the Pentagon,” Donziger told, adding that “prolonged detention under those conditions can amount to torture in violation of international law.”
“I think that when someone does something that is truly effective, holding accountable the wrongdoing of these powerful institutions, they want to strike back — not only because it’s psychologically satisfying, but also because it’s strategically necessary to try to use it to intimidate others who might think of doing the same,” he said. “And I think that’s just a bad reason to prosecute someone or to lock them up under such difficult conditions.
Donziger pointed out that advocates including anti-war group CodePink, investigative journalist Spencer Ackerman, and Natasha Erskine of About Face: Veterans Against the War are holding Thursday’s press conference a week after WNBA star Brittney Griner wasfrom a 10-month detention in Russia. Her freedom was painstakingly negotiated over the course of several months and was secured in exchange for the release of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
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