Petition for the release of Reality Winner

[redqueen]

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

1. ...

[soothsayer]

2. Yes please

[Hortensis]

3. Trump having failed to come through?

She was so grateful for his calling her conviction after having pled guilty “so unfair” compared to Hillary’s much larger crimes.

Her sentence was part of a plea deal or could’ve been much longer, and she scheduled to be released next November. So even though she was hoping for one of Trump’s pardons, she’s doing OK.

[redqueen]

4. She's why we know as much as we do about the extent of Russian interference.

She deserves a medal, not prison, imo.

[Hortensis]

5. I don't have your confidence in her good character

or good intentions. And certainly not her honesty, good sense, and competence. That we believe we benefit from her behavior, if we do, doesn’t necessarily mean she deserves a medal instead of prison.

Btw, a lot more people leak information than we are aware of, but most insiders leak it carefully and quietly — competently — to people who can put it to good use, and hopefully usually aren’t caught. Generally speaking, after the decades I’ve seen these people show up, such as Julian Assange, I believe there’s usually something wrong with the kind who screw up as badly as this one did. They need counseling before they hurt themselves and others.

[redqueen]

6. How did she screw up?

I'm aware of how assange put lives at risk, but hadn't heard any such goings on with respect to Winner's leak

[Hortensis]

7. Well, for one thing she's in prison.

For another, she did not Inform the public more than our intelligence services already were. We all knew Russia was helping both Trump and Sanders, the latter as a spoiler to help elect the former. We knew what we needed to know to do our part to foil this plotting. I never knew why she acted. Did she imagine more people would refuse to be useful idiots?

(And by the way, why did she accept Trump’s statement that Hillary belonged in person?)