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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 08:39 AM Jun 2017

I 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 Moscow’s 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 couldn’t 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 November’s vote.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/reality-winner-russia-us-election-hack-nsa-leak
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I proudly stand with Reality Winner. We deserve to know Chump's BFF was messing with our election (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 OP
This is just too perfect. Orrex Jun 2017 #1
I'm sorry. I'm trying to appreciate the story. I really am. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2017 #2
Post removed Post removed Jun 2017 #3
Are you talking to me ? DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2017 #5
As usual the info leaked was being kept from US Citizens not our adversaries who probably hacked the mulsh Jun 2017 #4
Arrested by the FBI and facing 10 years...shocked indeed. jmg257 Jun 2017 #6

Orrex

(63,216 posts)
1. This is just too perfect.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 08:42 AM
Jun 2017

Won't it be fantastic if Reality Winner helps down Reality Show Loser Trump?


I'd pay to see that.

Response to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
4. As usual the info leaked was being kept from US Citizens not our adversaries who probably hacked the
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 01:25 PM
Jun 2017

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)
6. Arrested by the FBI and facing 10 years...shocked indeed.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 01:30 PM
Jun 2017

Hope we decide to pay Russia back in a way that is worthwhile.

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