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.
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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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Time Capsule left on Mars
May 27, 2008
The Phoenix lander did not just take images of Mars and beam them back to Earth, but it also left something behind. A time capsule.
A special DVD of messages - that is, an interplanetary time capsule - has been left on Mars for future settlers (or even Martians) to discover.
The digital time capsule, compiled by the Planetary Society, stores personal greetings from science fiction visionaries including 2001 author Arthur C Clarke, who died this year, and Ray Bradbury, author of the Martian Chronicles.
The disc, intended as a digital time capsule, holds personal greetings recorded by space visionaries, such as the late science-fiction author Arthur C Clarke, who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ray Bradbury, the author of The Martian Chronicles, and Isaac Asimov, the author of the Foundation series.
It also holds a collection of Mars-themed literature and artwork, including a poster from the 1936 film Mars Attacks the World, depicting the intergalactic hero Flash Gordon preparing to battle a tyrannical Martian ruler called Ming the Merciless.
Audio recordings also stored on the disc include Orson Welles's chilling 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds – the tale of an invasion by Martians that was so realistic it caused public panic in the US – and narrations by the British actor Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"It could be centuries from now, on the planet Mars, when a man, or a woman, or perhaps a child, will come across this small disc," said Carl Sagan, the head of The Planetary Society.
"When this future Martian picks up this tame-looking disc, he or she will hold in their hands a message from our world, addressed to theirs.
"The disc will be part of a relic of an ancient unmanned spacecraft named Phoenix, which landed on the planet.
"Possibly preserved as a historic memento, perhaps long abandoned and forgotten, Phoenix will have kept its secret through the long Martian years."
Louis D Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society, came up with the idea when his friend, Isaac Asimov, died. "I began thinking – how do we honour him?" Mr Friedman recalled. "And it's not just him. It's what he represented. So then I thought: why not honour three giants, Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke – A,B,C – and do it by sending their stories to Mars. Then I began discussing it with Carl and other people and it grew into this bigger idea, this notion of a science-fiction anthology."
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