We’ve offered it to Edward Snowden instead.
Snowden is a far better choice. He made a decision that can be debated. Is he right or wrong. If wrong was his action wrong or his intent? Was the government wrong?
But Manning is just a freak show. Nobody is saying he/she was right. In fact, the fact that he stayed in the news is his only interest. Most everybody agrees that he is a coward, a deserter, a person who endangered the other members of his unit. The fact, that he got the US government to pay for his costume change is not what most of us consider a Harvard education, but rather some National Inquirer expose. And maybe that is all Harvard is anymore, and A list of freaks entertaining Harvard undergrads.