Posted on 06/14/2021 12:56:38 PM PDT by Coronal
Reality Winner, a US Air Force veteran jailed for leaking classified documents, has been released from federal prison, her lawyer said Monday.
“I am thrilled to announce that Reality Winner has been released from prison,” attorney Allison Grinter Allen posted on Twitter. “She is still in custody in the residential reentry process, but we are relieved and hopeful.
“Her release is not a product of the pardon or compassionate release process, but rather the time earned from exemplary behavior while incarcerated,” the lawyer said.
Winner, 29, a former National Security Agency contractor, was sentenced to more than five years in prison in 2018 for leaking a top-secret report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the media.
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Reality Winner?? I could have swore I bet on that horse at the racetrack a few years back.
True “Russian interference” is demonstrated by the 2020 election “winner” making all of Russia’s energy policy wet dreams come true.
She should have rotted in Prison.
she’s in tx yo!
Its not to late for an ‘accident”
She’s meaningless compared to the deep state trash destroying our country.
That was quick.
This b-word wanted to burn the White House down.
Now she has her chance.
She did something dumb, confessed immediately when confronted, took the first deal offered by prosecutors, and served her time quietly. I’ll take that over some violent gang member any day.
Double tap would have been more appropriate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
>>one of the prosecutors at her bail hearing said: “The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer.”
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi is firing up another witchhunt because President Trump was trying to use the DOJ to identify leakers of classified information in his administraton/Congress/etc.
She didn’t do something dumb. Nothing personal, but that is asinine. Nothing personal here, but do you understand what she did?
A good example of “Something dumb” was a US Navy sailor named Kristan Saucier who took pictures of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine because he wanted to show his buddies at home what he did for work and was proud of it, and got sentenced to a year in the brig.
What this POS Reality Winner (and she was someone who worked in Intelligence and KNEW exactly what she did, KNEW it was wrong, and DID IT WITH MALICIOUS INTENT) was while employed by a military contractor (and in all likelihood with the privileges that come post-service with someone who has a top secret security clearance) she, in her trusted position as an “Intelligence Specialist” with her top secrect clearance she was allowed to keep as a civilian and which she banked on, she obtained and released classified documents in an attempt to damage someone because she disagreed with them politically.
And, she expressed open support for Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, and wanted to “Burn down the White House” because Trump was President, indicating clearly she is an anti-American Leftist POS worthy of a firing squad.
Trump pardoned Kristan Saucier, as he SHOULD have, because Saucier should have NEVER been sent to jail because what he did was STUPID.
What this piece of human excrement Reality Winner did was intentional, malicious, and a betrayal of the privileges she obtained (with her top secret security clearance obtained while serving on active duty) should have resulted in a minimum 10-20 year sentence without parole.
The prosecutors in her case went for pretty much the maximum penalty, far beyond what anyone expected, and she accepted it. She accepted responsibility for her actions and she served her time.
I’m not saying the girl deserves a monument. I’m saying she at least accepted responsibility for her actions, and took the consequences even when they were far worse than most expected. She was young and did something stupid. Before she did that, she was in the US Air Force for 6 years and received a commendation for over 100 battlefield kills. She was 25 when she did what she did. How many people AREN’T liberals at 25? Yes what she did was stupid and illegal. Yes she had some messed up ideas. But she served her country well before then and after that she owned up to what she did and did her time.
That’s better than most who mess up.
/eyeroll. She’s a real Winner alright.
If nothing else, a 10-20 year sentence would have a deterrent effect on other politically motivated people with security clearance who might be contemplating doing what she did.
The government couldn’t charge her more because they were guilty of hiring this dope in the first place.
President Trump indicated he thought the sentence was too harsh:
“Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over “classified” information. Gee, this is “small potatoes” compared to what Hillary Clinton did! So unfair Jeff, Double Standard.” — President Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2018
This is nothing personal against you. We will not agree on this.
I feel the way I do for two reasons: She betrayed the trust of a privilege that she benefited monetarily from, and secondly, it wasn’t an oops, she did it with malicious intent to interfere with a political process.
I disagree with the desire for leniency because she was young. She was 25 years old and knew damn well what she was doing. I might have more sympathy if she had been 17 or even 18, but she was 25. Not a teenager. Not a child. She was old enough to know right from wrong.
I am not an advocate of past service excusing later actions, if I were, I would be more sympathetic to Benedict Arnold simply because his gripes may or may not have had legitimacy. But I am not.
And one more thing-I don’t care what she has said since then-she only regrets her actions because she got caught, and mouthed all the things she had to say like the commonest criminal would do in order to obtain an early release. And this is just one document. How many other things did she give to other people, and what ramifications would those have?
One of two things is going to happen going forward: She is going to shut her mouth and melt into the background so there are no more interactions with any investigations, or she is going to become a Leftist cause celbre and capitalize on her pathetic fame. Given her mother is a main player with the Kremlin Annex organization, a rabidly Leftist douchebag organization, one might think she didn’t have a chance. Her moonbat mother was audacious enough to petition Trump for a pardon all while unfairly accusing him of being in bed with the Russians.
You and I disagree on this, and I accept that. It is clear we will not see eye to eye on it.
I think you are missing the point that Trump was making, I hope not intentionally so.
What this turd Winner did is indeed smaller by anything that Hillary Clinton did from top to bottom by the size of a tsunami compared to a ripple from a rock, but she didn’t serve a day in jail.
That was President Trump’s point, and a valid one indeed.
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