Reality Winner is the hero who warned us about Russia's attack on US elections and paid a steep pric

[soothsayer]

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@POTUS What is the downside to granting a pardon to #RealityWinner?

I'll wait. But Reality and her family should not have to wait one day longer.

#BringRealityHome

Let's get 500 RT AND Comments!

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Reality Winner has suffered silenced and imprisoned the better part of four years. What more does she have to give? It’s long past time to bring home “The other guy’s” political prisoner.

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Reality Winner is the hero who warned us about Russia's attack on US elections and paid a steep price. Jailed and forgotten, Reality has suffered enough. Her mom has a message for @JoeBiden - please, Joe, #BringRealityHome!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Another person born in Alice, Texas that has achieved acclaim.

I posted an OP about two other people born there who won Nobel Prizes a few days ago.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/107852130

[JanMichael]

2. Agreed. Pardon her ASAP. nt

[Hortensis]

3. We already knew much more than she leaked about that, though.

She was exploited and abused, but by no one more than herself, and caught immediately.

You know, I just don't see dysfunctional people acting out their emotional problems as any kind of heroes, and that's how I have her pegged.

Now that sucking up to Trump (!) for a pardon failed, she'll be released next fall as scheduled. After that my best guess is she'll earn a living with speaking engagements, maybe write a book and sell it as a talking head on whatever shows will have her, run for congress and fail, and then mostly disappear from sight. Which would be for the best.

[JohnSJ]

8. I think a lot of the problem was The Intercept and Glen Greenwald didn't protect her identity as a

source

https://digg.com/2017/did-intercept-burn-reality-winner

[Hortensis]

9. Oh, that was a problem all right. But what was she doing going

to The Intercept (!) with documentation of Russian hacking in the first place? It's not really dissociated from its outed Russian asset cofounder Greenwald and is still busily promoting dissension on the left as part of the ongoing effort to bring down the Democratic Party. Which of course Russia has a huge stake in.

What we do know is that her first, fatal, mistake was her own, and her second nail-in-the-coffin mistake was also her own by choosing to bypass all the reputable journals who protect their sources to try to lie with dogs.

Both resulting from whatever causes her to seek untrustworthy influences like The Intercept in the first place, of course. Did she not notice that the rest of Greenwald's group was still there? Bad judgement, to put it mildly.

This patriot also wrote that she wanted "to burn the White House down" and then move to Nepal or Kurdistan. Not Trump, the WH.

Btw, when behaviors diverge so badly from claimed goals, it's time to question the goals. In her case, it's very possible she may not know. Lack of self awareness is part of a very common package.

[JohnSJ]

10. no disagreement on what you said from me

[Hortensis]

12. And as you posted, there's evidence of active betrayal by the Intercept. nt

[joetheman]

4. There ought to be a big push for her pardon or commutation.

Not a lot of fanfare is needed. Just do it!

[Duppers]

7. +100

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R!

[JohnSJ]

6. I I hold Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept complicit in her imprisonment

[Hortensis]

11. Maybe people should set far higher bars for their heroes.

Isn't letting ideological preferences lead them to claim as heroes whoever said what they wanted to hear how the Republicans brought themselves so low?

[oldsoftie]

13. Here we have the winning comment of the day. An actual objective poster!!

SO many recent OPs & comments that illustrate your post to a "T".