Posted on 06/26/2018 12:53:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
She wanted to burn the White House down and leaked classified information to an inept reporter by hiding it in her pantyhose in an attempt to punish Donald Trump. Instead, Reality Winner will spend 63 months in the Big House after taking a plea deal in Trumps efforts to crack down on leakers. This morning, the tawdry story of an NSA employee and her not-so-secret affinity for the Iranian regime came to an end with a whimper instead of a bang:
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Reality L. Winner, a former Air Force linguist who was the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration on charges of leaking classified information, pleaded guilty on Tuesday as part of an agreement with prosecutors that calls for a sentence of 63 months in prison.
Ms. Winner, who entered her plea in Federal District Court in Augusta, Ga., was arrested last June and accused of sharing a classified report about Russian interference in the 2016 election with the news media.
Ms. Winner, who is now 26, has been jailed since her arrest. Her decision to plead guilty to one felony count allows the government both to avoid a complex trial that had been scheduled for October and to notch a victory in the Trump administrations aggressive pursuit of leakers.
All of my actions I did willfully, meaning I did so of my own free will, Ms. Winner said in court on Tuesday.
Not without some encouragement from and incompetence by a reporter at The Intercept. Rather than re-render the documents, the outlet reproduced them instead, making it easy for investigators to conclude that Winner was the leaker. Not that she was exactly a model of subtlety either; while working with a Top Secret clearance, she was cheering on the mullahs of Iran and writing down her plans to burn down the White House and join the Taliban in Afghanistan. Winner then admitted to the crime in recorded jailhouse conversations with her mother while telling her sister that shed get bail because, er
Prosecutors said a phone call to her sister expressed Winners confidence in how to play the court during her bond hearing.
Im pretty, white and cute, she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.
Prosecutors said she also instructed family members to transfer $30,000 into her mothers account so shed appear poor enough for a court-appointed attorney.
A criminal mastermind she aint.
Winner didnt get a very lenient deal, either. A single count under 18 USC 793 carries a potential ten-year prison sentence. The deal Winner accepted is just over half of that in prison, followed by three years of probation. She might not have gotten much more than that had she fought the charges. The facts of the case, and her behavior before and after the leak, made it beneficial for her to get out from under this as quickly and as quietly as possible.
Her mother worries that her reputation will be ruined:
She said she wants the world to know that she does love her country, and she is a patriot, she said. I dont want her to go down in history as a traitor to her country.
Winner must be one of those patriots that support Americas enemies on the battlefield and plan to burn down government buildings out of luuuuuurve. Not even Chelsea Manning went that far, and he went far enough into moral treason territory to qualify. To the extent history remembers Winner at all, the best outcome for which she can hope is that shell be considered a narcissistic idiot that lacked the capacity for real treason. Under the circumstances, that seems pretty generous.
She said she wants the world to know that she does love her country, and she is a patriot, she said. I dont want her to go down in history as a traitor to her country.
She has probably been in 15 months which I assume would leave 48 to go. 6 months for good behavior so out in 3.5 years? She will be out at age 30 hopefully wiser but somewhat sadder.
A lot more than Hillary will receive.
She probably believed her “white privilege” would keep her out of prison, because you know, America is so racist they only lock up people of color.
“Im pretty, white and cute...”
Liberals are the nastiest and most insidious of all racists.
I hope that her cellmates find her just as she described.
I believe that historians many years from now will agree that The Trigglypuff Incident marked the beginning of the end. Of liberals.
and Hillary would say, “and MY emails?”...
Well, I guess that’s better than her dancing at the end of a Rope, which would have been the Sentence if I was the Judge.
One of the Deep State @$$holes going to jail? Finally! Look forward to seeing many more law breakers in the government going to jail.
“I’m Pretty, White and Cute.”
Well, I guess one out of three isn’t bad.
Given she stands convicted of violating 18 U.S. Code § 793, I think this pair should be her cellmates:
She should seduce the younger one and freeze out the older one.
Her mother worries that her reputation will be ruined
No sh**.
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Any mother who saddles a child with a name like “Reality Winner” deserves jail time for child abuse.
But on the plus side, reality did get it’s revenge.
“I remember reading an interview from this woman a while back, and I thought What unmitigated gall. What an anti-American turd.
And what does it say about the people that hired such a turd to a top secret position. How useless is that vetting process!
And Hillary and Comey walk around Scott free...
Two laws... one for us... One for them...
This will not end well...
Patience, FRiend..............................
From Wikipedia...
“Federal agents found her diary during a search of her home in which she allegedly expressed support for Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden. The U.S. magistrate judge who presided over Winner’s bail hearing said, “She seems to have a fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism,” and quoted her writing: “It’s a Christlike vision to have a fundamentalist Islamic state.” “
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