Posted on 02/21/2020 8:33:05 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A former government contractor serving time in federal prison for leaking a classified document to a news organization is making an appeal for early release to President Donald Trump, who once tweeted that he considered her crime to be “small potatoes.”
Reality Winner, 28, is serving a sentence of five years and three months at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, after she pleaded guilty in 2018 to a single count of transmitting national security information when she worked at a National Security Agency office in Georgia. Prosecutors called it the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the media.
Winner's parents and sister appeared with her attorney at a news conference Monday in Dallas to announce the filing of an application with the Justice Department seeking clemency for Winner. Attorney Alison Grinter Allen said the application included about 4,500 letters of support.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Grinter Allen said Winner's best bet may be direct intervention by Trump, who has demonstrated a willingness to become personally involved in criminal prosecutions that he considers unfair.
“I don’t know that we ever had our hopes pinned on the official channels of the pardon attorneys, because really that takes so long," Grinter Allen said. "But this president has shown a willingness to ignore those conventions and to commute people's sentences when he sees fit.
“That’s what we’re hoping for is to get the attention of the president,” she said, "and get the attention of all the candidates vying to be president.”
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Maybe when Hell freezes over...
Where do I obtain my GOOJF card too?
She brome the law, for political reasons, she should serve her time and live the life of a felon, as it should be.
Trump has one potential option that he could bundle a clemency with Roger stone clemency, not sure though. He would seem magnanimous as well as take the wind out of the sails of his opponents who constantly call him “dictator.”
I think its best to see how Roger Stone’s appeal process pans out first though.
Federal agents found her diary during a search of her home, in which she allegedly expressed support for Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden.[25] 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.”[25]
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NFW. No **** Way!
Nope.
No, Trump should not grant her request for clemency or a pardon. IIRC, she had stated in her leak that she was part of “the resistance”.
Repentant? She used to brag about how she’d get better treatment because she’s cute and hot. (barfissimo)
Her parents should be in jail for giving her a first name like that.
“Trump, who has demonstrated a willingness to become personally involved in criminal prosecutions that he considers unfair”
He said small potatoes he didn’t say unfair?
Yeah. NO.
When is Hillary going to be indicted?
Maybe if that’s what it took, while simultaneously giving the same to Assange, to maximally spin liberal heads. Otherwise, why?
This miserable little bitch is a Trump hater, tried to take him out and now wants a pardon?
The DOJ, FBI and the “intelligence” community all leak government information to the news media. Most of the time no on is even investigated much less prosecuted.
Keep Reality Orange!
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