ORT MEADE, MD – JULY 30: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) is escorted by military police as arrives to hear the verdict in his military trial July 30, 2013 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Manning, who is charged with aiding the enemy and wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

In a press conference near Ft. Meade, Md. —where Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on charges including six counts of espionage, five theft counts, and computer fraud—Manning’s chief attorney David Coombs announced that he’ll be formally applying for a presidential pardon for his client.

According to a press release, Coombs is “seeking Manning’s immediate release or at the very least, a commutation to a sentence of time already served.” A website, Pardon.BradleyManning.org, has already been launched by the Bradley Manning Support Network to help Coombs get the pardon.

“I’m hoping that the president does the right thing and pardons Bradley Manning,” Coombs said of the website’s launch in the release. Coombs plans to appeal to Obama through his 2008 campaign platform of transparency and accountability in government.

A rally organized by the Bradley Manning Support Network will be held in front of the White House tonight at 7:30 p.m.

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