[dragonwriter]

A pardon wouldn't have any different effect; she's not being targeted (legally speaking) for any action before Obama left office, so even had he pardoned here for every federal crime she might have committed from the day she was born to the microsecond Obama’s turn ended, she would be subject to the exact same thing she is experiencing now.

Now, if Obama has pardoned Assange things might be a little differenct for Manning, but that's a weirder counterfactual assumption.