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NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Submits Clemency Petition Alongside More Than 4,000 Letters of Support
The Intercept ^ | Mon 17 Feb 2020 | Taylor Barnes

Posted on 02/17/2020 8:24:10 PM PST by yesthatjallen

On Monday, a Texas civil rights attorney launched a clemency petition for National Security Agency whistleblower Reality Winner in Dallas.

The attorney, Alison Grinter, encountered Winner through Crystal Mason, a Texas mother who served time alongside Winner in a Fort Worth federal prison after receiving a five-year sentence for “illegal voting” in the 2016 presidential election. Mason and Winner became friends in the facility’s newsroom, where they spent long hours watching TV news and debating current events.

After hearing about Winner from Mason, Grinter began corresponding with the whistleblower’s mother, Billie Winner-Davis, on Twitter. Last year, the two women drove hours across the state of Texas — Winner-Davis up from the panhandle, and Grinter down from Dallas — to meet at an Austin restaurant, where they spoke late into the night.

“It was incredible talking to her,” Winner-Davis said of Grinter, “because she had the same dream and vision that I had and the kind of passionate energy about it.”

Grinter pulled together a petition — signed by Winner and delivered to the Trump administration’s Office of the Pardon Attorney — that invokes the whistleblower’s military service; her health conditions and inadequate treatment behind bars; and the circumstances of her case. Winner, who was reported to have leaked an NSA document detailing attempted Russian cyberattacks against U.S. election systems, is serving the longest federal sentence ever given to a journalistic source under the Espionage Act, World War I-era legislation increasingly used in recent years to prosecute government insiders who share classified information with journalists.

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KEYWORDS: 201611; 2016election; 201705; 20170505; 201706; 20170603; 20170605; alisongrinter; anonymous; crystalmason; deepstate; electionoffices; hacking; iran; leaker; nsa; partisanmediashill; realitywinner; russia; snowden; statehouses; taylorbarnes; texas; theintercept; trump
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"Winner was arrested on June 3, 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice announced her arrest on June 5, shortly after The Intercept published an article describing Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election by hacking a U.S. voting software supplier and sending spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before the November 8 election. The Intercept's story was based on a top-secret May 5, 2017, National Security Agency (NSA) document leaked to them anonymously."

Intelligence report leak, arrest, potential role of The Intercept in her arrest and sentencing

1 posted on 02/17/2020 8:24:10 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Fat chance of clemency happening under Trump. She’s one winner he doesn’t care for.


2 posted on 02/17/2020 8:27:35 PM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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To: yesthatjallen
The old rule of thumb still holds up pretty well.

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

If you didn't grant yourself clemency by just taking a
pass on this sort of thing, why should anyone else?

3 posted on 02/17/2020 8:37:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: DoughtyOne

While I think she is a skank, and doesn’t deserve Shiite, the Hildebeast still walks free.


4 posted on 02/17/2020 8:40:15 PM PST by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks)
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To: Mark17

That’s true, but the fix to that is tossing the Hildabeast into federal prison, not trying to make it fair by letting this woman off.

I do expect this attorney to come up with some glossy comments along the lines of how unfair this is.

Nope.

This woman was treated fairly. Hillary wasn’t, on behalf of the American justice system.


5 posted on 02/17/2020 8:44:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Reality Winner? Sounds like more like a racehorse than a spy.


6 posted on 02/17/2020 8:45:58 PM PST by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Whistleblower? She was a political operative who opposed Trump and tried to assist the coup.


7 posted on 02/17/2020 8:47:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Good catch. The gaslighting is so prevalent that it’s easy to miss the lies that are slipped into headlines like this one.


8 posted on 02/17/2020 9:00:12 PM PST by mbrfl ( KAGA - Keep America Great Always)
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To: DesertRhino

That’s what I was thinking too.


9 posted on 02/17/2020 9:00:47 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: yesthatjallen

Let me wad that up and place it on file for ya.


10 posted on 02/17/2020 9:01:34 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: yesthatjallen

She should have been hanged as a terrorist spy.


11 posted on 02/17/2020 9:02:24 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: DesertRhino

She was also an Islamic jihad sympathizer.


12 posted on 02/17/2020 9:02:58 PM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: yesthatjallen

You can never take the sob stories Reality Loser trots out, at face value. I remember when this all broke, reading articles quoting her as being confident that she’d get leniency because she knows how to garner sympathy by crying and looking vulnerable. I’ll have to try to find the link. The bottom line is Reality Loser is a manipulative radical who had no business being entrusted with state secrets.


13 posted on 02/17/2020 9:06:15 PM PST by mbrfl ( KAGA - Keep America Great Always)
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To: yesthatjallen

She wasn’t a whistleblower. As an employee of an NSA contractor, she took top secret information that she was not assigned, copied it, carried it out, and gave it to the press. Her actions possibly compromised our intelligence gathering concerning Russia.

She sounds like a talented nutjob, and she deserves every single second of her sentence.


14 posted on 02/17/2020 9:10:00 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: yesthatjallen

How is it she’s a “whistleblower “? She used her security clearance to go snooping around for something she was not involved in to share with a reporter.


15 posted on 02/17/2020 9:10:52 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: yesthatjallen

Time to face reality, um,...Reality.

CC


16 posted on 02/17/2020 9:13:39 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: yesthatjallen

No clemency.


17 posted on 02/17/2020 9:15:56 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: DesertRhino

She stole classified documents, which were not verified, and turned them over to coup plotters. Needs to serve her time.


18 posted on 02/17/2020 9:16:50 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: DoughtyOne
This woman was treated fairly. Hillary wasn’t, on behalf of the American justice system.

Yep, she is skank, and should have been hanged, right along side all the other POS skanks. There are lots of them.

19 posted on 02/17/2020 9:33:51 PM PST by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks)
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To: Mark17

It bothers me when people in positions of power abuse that power.

Thousands of people would be honored to hold a position in the Senate or House. Then some of these wicked people get them and become despicable creatures.

I have very little patience for that.


20 posted on 02/17/2020 9:39:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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