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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Shuttle Discovery, Cargo Prepared for December Spaceflight
November 02, 2006
The pieces are coming together for NASAs next shuttle mission as workers hoisted the space agencys Discovery orbiter towards its flight position today.
Work crews hauled Discovery into a vertical position by crane inside NASAs cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) spaceport in Florida. There, the 122 foot (37meter) orbiter will be mated to the external fuel tank and rocket boosters [image] that will aid its planned Dec. 7 launch towards the International Space Station (ISS).
Everything is going smoothly, NASA KSC spokesperson Jessica Rye told SPACE.com, adding that shuttle workers want to make sure nothing is moving on the orbiter before they connect it to the external tank [image].
Discoverys STS-116 mission, commanded by veteran shuttle flyer Mark Polansky, will ferry a SPACEHAB cargo module and a new ISS segment the Port 5 (P5) truss to the orbital outpost in what is expected to be NASAs third shuttle flight this year. The STS 116 crew will also stage several spacewalks to rewire the stations electrical grid.
The Tuesday shuttle move was delayed several hours to allow time additional landing gear inspections, NASA official said.
Discovery rolled out of its hangar like Orbiter Processing Facility Tuesday night at about 9:23 p.m. EST (0223 Nov. 1 GMT), making the short trip to the 52 story Vehicle Assembly Building in about 34 minutes, Rye added.
Shuttle workers are expected to spend about a week mating Discovery to its launch stack and checking their work before the entire assembly and its Mobile Launch Platform are hauled to Pad 39B.
Meanwhile, a team of cargo specialists have installed the 4,110-pound (1,864-kilogram) P5 truss [image] into a container for later transport to Discoverys Pad 39B launch site. A SPACEHAB cargo pod will be placed into the canister on Nov. 4, with both elements due for delivery to the Pad 39Bs payload changeout room on Nov. 6, NASA officials said.
The P5 truss runs about 11 feet (3.3 meters) in length and 14 feet (4.2 meters) in width and height. The Boeing-built segment is destined for installation on the outboard edge of the space stations Port 3/Port 4 (P3/P4) truss, which NASAs STS-115 shuttle crew delivered last month. P5 is designed to serve as both a truss spacer and conduit to allow power, cooling and other vital systems to reach outer ISS segments.
Polansky and his STS 116 crewmates examined their shuttle and launch stack last month, and are completing final training simulations for their planned December space shot.
We are really pleased with all the work that everyone has been doing to support us, STS 116 mission specialist Joan Higginbotham told SPACE.com in a recent interview.
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