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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

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To: Spacetrucker

Federal women’s pen. She’s probably exploring her inner lesbian.


41 posted on 06/20/2020 7:04:05 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Steely Tom

Your little girl violated the Espionage Act.


42 posted on 06/20/2020 7:11:30 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: BenLurkin

Name theory of problematic people.


43 posted on 06/20/2020 7:19:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Steely Tom

Reality Winner, the girl with the hots for the Iranian regime.


44 posted on 06/20/2020 7:31:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: EEGator

Well.... that “prison loaf” isn’t exactly low fat.


45 posted on 06/20/2020 7:33:44 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

This bad mother should be thrown in prison . What a pathetic parent .


46 posted on 06/20/2020 8:02:03 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: seowulf

Mudd Fence seems more apropos too


47 posted on 06/20/2020 8:03:27 PM PDT by Robocop5626
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To: mass55th

She did that, really. Upon questioning by investigators, she admitted to everything she did. She then accepted a plea agreement and reported to prison.

I don’t agree with her actions, but she certainly did accept responsibility for them. Now she’s doing time for those actions.

However, her mother does have a point that this seems to be a singular case where someone caught doing this was actually sent to prison at all, let alone for any significant time. I wish the DOJ would be more consistent. There was nothing particularly unusual or egregious about this case to make you think it merits a harsher response than what is commonly seen. I’m not a fan of leaks and I wish they’d go after leakers more in general to discourage it, but this case seems like an odd one to suddenly decide severe enforcement is important. There are plenty of other examples far more deserving of this kind of treatment.


48 posted on 06/20/2020 10:07:00 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
"...but she certainly did accept responsibility for them. "

She accepted the plea deal of 5 years willingly. How is filing an appeal, and asking for clemency accepting responsibility? She's whined about suffering from depression and an eating disorder. She wrote in her journal that she wanted to burn down The White House, and move to Nepal or Kurdistan. She played a game and got caught, and could have gotten a longer sentence.

49 posted on 06/20/2020 11:21:22 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

She’s never denied what she did. She’s never claimed what she did wasn’t wrong. She’s never claimed someone else made her do it. She admitted what she did wrong immediately and accepted a plea deal.

Now that she sees just how harsh prison life is, she’s asking for clemency. I don’t see anything wrong with making the request and it absolutely does nothing to diminish her taking responsibility. And again, I ask if you can find a single other case where the DOJ decided an individual doing what she did required that severe of a punishment.

She and other leakers need to be punished to deter that activity. However, the DOJ has been wildly inconsistent at best and in this case seems to have no reason to push this hard against a naive and foolish girl beyond “we can, and screw her”. That isn’t how the DOJ is supposed to work. A couple years in prison, permanent loss of any security clearance, total career destruction, and the permanent label of convicted felon should be plenty of penance for her sins. She was a foolish girl who made stupid choices. She’s not some deep cover agent for a foreign government looking for missile codes. If she were, the DOJ (based on historical evidence) would have pushed for a couple years in prison. Instead, she gets two and a half times that for leaking a report about suspected election interference? Crazy.


50 posted on 06/21/2020 12:42:56 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

She accepted a plea deal of five years. That was her decision. General Flynn has gone through more crap than she has for a longer period of time, for doing nothing wrong at all, and lost far more than Reality Winner did. She got off easy.


51 posted on 06/21/2020 1:12:26 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: JonPreston; Steely Tom
"Out of all the hundreds of leaks, and now Bolton’s book, this young idiot is the only one to do time. Such an inept and corrupt DOJ"

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NO SH*T!


52 posted on 06/21/2020 6:09:26 AM PDT by a little elbow grease ( ....... F.Lee Levin)
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To: Steely Tom

She should have been executed.


53 posted on 06/21/2020 6:13:52 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: a little elbow grease

In addition to the one document she leaked to The Intercept, she also made off with a thumbdrive of data but it is not known what she did with it.

She also said she would support Iran if the US and Iran ever went to war.


54 posted on 06/21/2020 4:59:48 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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