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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI proudly stand with Reality Winner. We deserve to know Chump's BFF was messing with our election
Three days before Americans voted last November, Reality Winner joked with her sister online that Moscows efforts to influence the US presidential election could have an upside for her as a keen weightlifter.
Russian agents hacked US voting system manufacturer before US election report
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When we become the United States of the Russian Federation, she said on Facebook, Olympic lifting will be the national sport.
Seven months later, Winner, 25, called home to Texas on Saturday to let her family know that the Russian hacking saga had ended up landing her in a far more serious situation.
She said that she had been arrested by the FBI and that she couldnt really talk about it, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told the Guardian in a telephone interview. I am still in shock.
Prosecutors allege that last month, Winner, who was working for the defense contractor Pluribus International Corporation, printed an NSA document detailing how Russia had hacked a voting equipment vendor in Florida and was trying to breach local election systems right up until the days before Novembers vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/reality-winner-russia-us-election-hack-nsa-leak
Orrex
(63,216 posts)Won't it be fantastic if Reality Winner helps down Reality Show Loser Trump?
I'd pay to see that.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)That name, though.
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)report as it was being entered into the system.
Obviously the government will and must prosecute Ms. Winning to the fullest extent it can. If they drop one opportunity to do so they jeopardize subsequent cases. I hope if convicted one of the current administrations successors will issue a pardon for her.
Ms. Winning has done a great service for most Americans. so yeah, for what it's worth I support her.
A very good way for us all to show our support is to donate to her legal defense fund when that gets organized.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Hope we decide to pay Russia back in a way that is worthwhile.