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The mother of NSA leaker Reality Winner speaks out: 'Everything about her case has been so harsh and just cruel'
Business Insider ^ | 6 June 2020 | Charles Davis

Posted on 06/20/2020 3:37:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom

Billie Winner-Davis doesn't get it, or maybe she does. How can Paul Manafort, chairman of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, get compassionate release from prison — years before his slated release, after lying about his dealings with Russian intelligence assets — while someone who leaked a report about Moscow's efforts to interfere in elections, like her daughter, languish behind bars?

And whatever happened to all of those people who used to champion the cause of persecuted whistle-blowers?

"As each chapter of this unfolds, I see just how corrupt our system really is, and I see just how powerless the average American is," Winner-Davis, the mother of former US intelligence contractor Reality Winner, told Business Insider.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: billiewinnerdavis; crime; iran; leaker; missingthumbdrive; nsa; reality; realitywinner; thumbdrive; winner
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To: BenLurkin

‘Who the heck would name their kid “reality”?‘

Someone used to having to get out there and defend her kid from a lot of crap thrown her way

So annoying.

‘Reality Winner’. I had to read the headline 3 times to make sense of it with all the adjectives and nouns


21 posted on 06/20/2020 3:57:12 PM PDT by stanne
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To: EEGator

Here’s why you didn’t get released a year early, dearie. You aren’t an old man! Just a somewhat plain, but young, woman.


22 posted on 06/20/2020 3:59:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Steely Tom

How’s that Manning thing doing?


23 posted on 06/20/2020 4:01:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Steely Tom

False premise, that’s not why Manafort went to prison. People are so ignorant these days.


24 posted on 06/20/2020 4:02:45 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: Steely Tom

Actions have consequences, dear.


25 posted on 06/20/2020 4:08:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: ripnbang

That was before the Trump administration, I believe.


26 posted on 06/20/2020 4:11:54 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Steely Tom

not harsh or cruel enough!


27 posted on 06/20/2020 4:13:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Steely Tom

Reality Winner deliberately and without remorse leaked compartmented Top Secret information. Not accidentally, not under duress, during a medical emergency, or negligently. In that one act, she endangered any or all of the sources or methods that the government used to get the information, possibly putting heavy government investment and lives of US persons in danger. Worse for her, she did so without first formulating an escape plan to Moscow or a gaining a government appointment to a cabinet level job to use as a hedge against prosecution.


28 posted on 06/20/2020 4:17:07 PM PDT by jz638
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To: JonPreston

Yes, but he still did time and I believe his sentence was reduced by the Trump admin.


29 posted on 06/20/2020 4:21:25 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: EEGator

Eh, she’s kinda cute - in a 4 beers, a shot of Mezcal and a pair of paper bags kind of way. Not that I would know anything about that, mind you.


30 posted on 06/20/2020 4:40:44 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Dutch Boy

To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Queue the Beretta theme song...

I have zero sympathy for these people.
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She did whatever because she hated President Trump. She is part of the so called resistance.


31 posted on 06/20/2020 4:44:37 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Steely Tom

Why hasn ‘t she been executed for treason?


32 posted on 06/20/2020 4:46:00 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Spacetrucker
I prefer the Russian spy.


33 posted on 06/20/2020 4:47:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Steely Tom

Has the mother yet spoken up about her contribution to her daughter’s mental defect?


34 posted on 06/20/2020 4:53:12 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin
Who the heck would name their kid “reality”?

A real "winner" or maybe a real whiner?

35 posted on 06/20/2020 4:54:07 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: BenLurkin
Who the heck would name their kid “reality”?

A real "winner" or maybe a real whiner?

36 posted on 06/20/2020 4:54:07 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: BenLurkin

Sadder yet that she is stuck with the ironic surname of “Winner”.


37 posted on 06/20/2020 5:23:12 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: EEGator

Mmmmm nom nom nom


38 posted on 06/20/2020 6:29:31 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: EEGator

Clams, mostly. Bearded Clams.

L


39 posted on 06/20/2020 6:51:50 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Calorically dense.


40 posted on 06/20/2020 6:57:37 PM PDT by EEGator
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