Heroic Russian Election
Interference Whistle-Blower Reality Leigh Winner Denied Bail-We Will Not Leave
Our Sister Behind
Here is a link to the
recently set up Stand With Reality
website (which will link you to Facebook
and Twitter) for all kinds of
information about the Reality Leigh Winner case, a place to sign a petition for
her release, and to donate to her legal defense fund.
or Google Stand With Reality
By Political Reporter
Frank Jackman
Okay, sometimes in
politics, in world affairs, you have to go by the numbers, go by the seat of
your pants in effect. Take this never-ending unfolding revelation, or series of
revelations, about Russian cyber-and who knows what else attacks on the
American presidential elections of 2016. And who, and who did not, have
contacts with agents of the Russian government. The most recent expose (July
2017), or self-expose maybe a better way to put the matter, of a meeting
between Donald J. Trump, Jr. and a lawyer connected to the Putin Kremlin
operations only confirms that lots of things were going on, maybe still going
on between the Trump administration and various Russian agents. The point, a
very important point, is that nobody is, and probably nobody will, be sitting a
stinking jail cell for what they did-or what they told to some media sources on
the QT, on condition of anonymity. Even from the bowels of the White
House.
That second to last
sentence is my point today. Somebody is sitting in jail, in a county jail down
in Georgia, for giving us, the American people, documents which confirm that
the Russians were knee-deep, hell, waist-deep, no, hell again, neck deep in
hacking the American election process last year. Who? One recent ex-Air Force
service person and thereafter employee of an NSA contractor Reality Leigh
Winner. Why? Reality Leigh Winner blew the whistle and allegedly provided a
social media platform Intercept with
the “top-secret” NSA documents detailing Russian interference back in June. For
that alleged transgression she had been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917
(the same Act that the recently freed soldier Wiki-leaks whistle-blower Chelsea
Manning was charged under among the charges brought against her) and now faces
up to ten years federal imprisonment in a trail now scheduled for October
(although as such matters go in the court system, including the federal system
that date is not etched in stone).
The sitting in jail
right now pre-trial for what she is alleged to have done is because the
magistrate who was in charge of Reality Leigh’s bail hearing deemed her a
flight risk. And that is why today I am informing one and all that some voices,
some familiar like Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, and other
lesser well-known citizen journalists like me, Frank Jackman, are calling for
the Department of Justice to back off the charges and free Reality Leigh Winner
now. And in case they don’t this space will continue like we did with Chelsea
Manning to publicize her case as it goes forward. Until she is freed.
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