Chelsea Manning
Who pardoned her: Barack Obama
What she was pardoned for: Leaking classified documents
Why it was controversial: Manning was part of the infamous Wikileaks scandal, in which 750,000 classified and sensitive documents were leaked. Though it wasn’t a full pardon, merely a commuted sentence that lessened her punishment, many felt it was a miscarriage of justice. Paul Ryan said it set a “dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won’t be held accountable for their crimes.”