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   From: obama-retards@abc.com   
      
   A former National Security Agency contractor serving a five-year   
   prison sentence for leaking classified documents about Russian   
   meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is petitioning   
   President Trump for an early release.   
      
   A lawyer for Reality Winner announced at a Monday news   
   conference in Dallas that she had submitted 4,500 letters of   
   support of her client to the Trump administration's Office of   
   the Pardon Attorney.   
      
   "Our country was attacked by a hostile foreign power," attorney   
   Alison Grinter said, as the Intercept reported. "Our national   
   healing process cannot begin until we forgive our truth-tellers   
   and begin the job of rebuilding what was taken from us: election   
   security, accountability for those who endeavor to undermine our   
   democracy and safeguarding the American right to government by   
   and for the people. None of this can begin in earnest while we   
   are still punishing those who tell us the truth."   
      
   Winner was arrested in 2017 and charged under the Espionage Act   
   for removing classified material from a government facility and   
   mailing it to a news outlet, according to the Justice Department.   
      
   The arrest came after the Intercept published a June 2017 story   
   detailing how Russian hackers attacked voting software and   
   engaged in email "spear-phishing" attacks against local election   
   officials at the end of October or beginning of November 2016.   
      
   Winner, an Air Force veteran, worked as a contractor for the NSA   
   with a Top Secret clearance with Pluribus International   
   Corporation at a federal facility in Georgia. She printed out a   
   sheet of paper with classified information and mailed it to the   
   news outlet, the Justice Department said.   
      
   She was handed down her five-year prison sentence in August 2018   
   after admitting to violating the Espionage Act. Her petition   
   noted that she was not working with a foreign entity to conspire   
   against her country, sought no compensation and acted only out   
   of a desire to inform the public.   
      
   After her sentencing, Trump tweeted it was "'small potatoes'   
   compared to what Hillary Clinton did!"   
      
   Donald J. Trump   
   ?   
   @realDonaldTrump   
   Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over “classified”   
   information. Gee, this is “small potatoes” compared to what   
   Hillary Clinton did! So unfair Jeff, Double Standard.   
      
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   The petition stated that Winner's "continued incarceration is   
   costly, unnecessary to protect the public, burdensome to her   
   health and wellbeing, and not commensurate with the severity of   
   her offense."   
      
   It emphasized Winner's military service and that she did not   
   receive adequate medical treatment in prison for depression,   
   anxiety and her eating disorder, the Intercept reported. She was   
   diagnosed with bulimia during her stint as a cryptologist   
   translating the intercepted communications of terror suspects in   
   a drone program, the outlet added.   
      
   The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News'   
   request for comment.   
      
   Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nsa-leaker-reality-winner-   
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   Leave the whore in jail.  No mercy.   
           
      
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