It will be difficult for 25-year-old Reality Winner to get a fair trial if her case becomes “this big thing where we’re not going to tolerate leakers,” Winner’s mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told The Associated Press in an interview.”I think they’re going to try to make an example out of her because of the political climate right now,” Winner-Davis said.
Unfortunately, this undermines her no-flight-risk claim.
Nah. She’s not a flight risk. Besides, if the FBI and the media can hound Richard Jewell for months, surely they’ll have the wherewithal to keep tabs on someone named Reality Winner. It’s not like keeping a close eye on a “Dick” Jewell.
And her timing is just awful – for her. They’ll make an example of her – especially after Snowden and Manning. Quixotic and naive on her part.
Decades ago, I worked in a unit that was a forerunner of her group. One knows it is highly sensitive info. You cannot talk to anyone about it. : We can’t have an enemy or potential enemy deducing how we’re spying on him.
If he sees our work product he can figure out where we got the info and how we may have gotten it. He then shuts down that channel of info.
That’s the environment she worked in. When you sign on you agree to STFU.
I can have only a casual sympathy for her. I’m sorry, but it was not a patriotic act on her part.
She should get the book thrown at her for doing such a piss poor job covering her tracks when leaking. I mean you work for the NSA, you’d think the last way you’d leak something is through your own unsecured e-mail account.
The good thing is, this isn’t going to deter anyone else from leaking even if they give her life, as you can see the pipes in the White House are more broken than ever.
“She made this mistake!”
Is the father borderline RETARDED??!!
Is nobody in the family smart enough to pick a winning defense strategy and stick to it??! Maybe in that part of Texas they have local laws that force defendants’ families to incriminate their kinfolk??!