Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Like It Or Not Here Come's Windows Vista
October 24, 2006
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates
Like it or not, Windows users are going to have to adapt to a new version of the ubiquitous operating system. Of course you're not required to upgrade your existing PC to Windows Vista when the operating system comes out early next year, but if you get a new PC, chances are it will come with Vista.
Microsoft recently reiterated that the new operating system is expected to be available to corporate customers in November and to consumers starting in January.
However, as a longtime Microsoft watcher, I can say that an operating system doesn't ship until it ships.
I've been testing various pre-release versions of Vista including the latest, "release candidate 2." Microsoft uses the designation "release candidate" to signify a test version that is nearly complete but the company does admit that it's not entire ready for release.
From my tests, even the pre-release version of Vista is more stable and reliable than the shipping version of Windows XP. Vista's help system isn't quite done and it doesn't have nearly as many drivers (to handle printers, scanners and other hardware), but the basic features are all in place and, for the most part, working well.
Vista, which represents the first major upgrade to Windows in five years, has changes that you can see and "under-the-hood" improvements that you can't see. Today's column focuses on what you can see. Later I'll write about some of the refinements that affect security, performance and stability.
The first thing you do see is a slightly modified look and feel. The Start menu, for example, has been streamlined and no longer even says "Start." When launching a program with XP you have to click two or three times to locate it from a cascading menu. With Vista, you see all of your program groups in one list that you can scroll through.
Another enhancement called "Aero" works on only systems with graphics cards that are up to the task. Aero provides a translucent border around windows so you can cascade or stack them and see what's underneath. That's largely a gimmick, but Aero also allows you to see thumbnail images of the actual content of running programs in the task bar and when you switch between programs by pressing Alt-Tab.
There is also a new "switch between windows" icon on the task bar that presents you with a useful look inside all the programs that are running. If I were to press it now, I'd see a miniature window with the actual content of the article I'm now writing, along with the content from my browser and other programs that are currently running. Clicking on any of those miniature windows brings the program to the foreground.
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