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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Bloggers are causing a trend - is this good for your PageRank ?
June 24, 2008
I am seeing a trend that is very rare indeed. Bloggers are Re-Uniting quickly. Talking, Linking, and communicating.
Let me explain this "Trend". Yesterday, I received a comment on one of my posts asking for us to link to a fellow blogger. Hey, no problem there !
I deleted the post, and added the site to our link roll (located on bottom right).
Shortly after that, I see others writing to me asking the same. Some in Email, some in comments, but one thing for sure, there was many.
And Questions Too ?
So for those of you that do not know me (or us) , let me summarize a few years of work.
As you can see from the picture on the right, yesterdays traffic was 1,029 clicks for the day. Not bad. No spikes or trends where indicated in my logs, but Links went out of site ! This will improve your Technorati ranks if you have an account there !
From day 1 - Cinnamon from Save Our Forest was my 1st fan. She has many other sites as well, but lets pick on this one. Together, we talk about News, try to come up with something original or chit chat thru Email. A conversation in Email was interesting ! So, I had my 1st fan, and was the beginner on the block on Oct 2005. And did I learn fast. In Summary - I screwed up this site by trying to make it a '.com' , Google dropped my pagerank to zero for bad bookmarks, upset a few webmasters & many other "Goodies" laid in store for me at that time.
As you can see, I kinda learned the hard way about blogging and the "Do's & Don't's" ...
Today, the table has changed. At the end of the year, I suspect 1/2 million people will have seen this site (providing that I do not "Spike" the net no more) NOT ! But instead of bloasting about me, lets talk about some of the questions that worry me about new blogs. Some of the questions posed to me were :
1) Why does this site have no ads ? 2) Can I link to your site ? 3) Why is fresh content important ?
The 3 biggest questions out of many. So lets start with the 1st one. Why no ads ?
This site is picked up by all the major media networks. I DO spike the net with breaking stories. To date there have been breaking stories recently that did just that. With this kind of attention, I am very fussy what appears on my homepage. My admirers can tell you I am constantly adjusting my site to look better and load faster.
Google Adsense, is an excellent source of revenue. Yes. I do not use Google Adsense here (obviously). I can single out no particular reason for this other than the fact, I want to control the ads on this site, not Google. After all, it is my head on the block, since I am personally responsible for its content. I have used RegNow in the past, and am looking forward to using them again. It is well worth checking out. Ads will be appearing on OS9USER, in the future. The 2nd question, Can I link to your site ?
Absolutely.
There seems to be a question about some of the links out of my site. Rumor has it that if you link to a site that has a pagerank of zero, will drag down your pagerank as well. I do not have the time to write to Google to confirm this just yet, however, IF your blog has no porn or XXX rated content on it, I will link to it regardless of your pagerank.
I know if I link to your site with a PR4 and yours is a PR3 , a higher pagerank will eventually move your pagerank up as well. Google just changed this equation on pagerank which I wrote about a while back.
Mega links in from other sites, does not improve your pagerank this has changed. I am not sure about Technorati, but I doubt it.
Remember, running an XXX rated site on Blogger violates your TOS with Blogger. Technically they can delete your blog, however most of the time they stamp it with a warning. I have known a few blogs to get deleted, so take this with a grain of salt.
I have and always will support blogs. If I have to stop what I am doing today to help one Blogger, then it will be done. I have done this in the past, and will continue to do so.
The last question is a loaded question.
Why is fresh content important ?
One word answer here is "Google". We are on a Google Domain , so naturally they want us to write as much as we can. The Google Robot is constantly "On the Look-out" for keywords and Hot Stories. I could write a book on this answer, but in summary, if you hit a "Hot Story" , the minute you hit the enter key, you are indexed.
If your lucky enough, you will hit one of the 1st - 4 places on the Google Index when searching for a keyword.
This story was a hit when I first wrote about it, and held a position in the top 10 Stories since I wrote about it. Out of 1,480,000 possible links, I get # 1 .... And was quickly picked up by Google. Make sure you fill in the "Labels for this post" but do not stuff your keywords. I keep mine simple.
Not bad uh ? - In any event, you can read that story on Yahoo fooled me later. On to my point.
Blogging is hard, and many fail.
Sometimes there is nothing to write about.
Sometimes you feel like you are talking to yourself !
But ! - If you make an impact on someones life it is all worth they while.
Here I alert my readers about scams , tell them where to find their "Goodies" , and many other helpful tips. Lately these stories have been far and few, because no-one is clicking on them. However, I do sent "ALERTS" thru my toolbar when an important story breaks.
Inaddition, we Re-wrote our template so only 2 columns appear in my homepage instead of 3 (which you are seeing now) and many other things as well.
Video Site Reviews will be coming back shortly.
To-date there is 3 videos of sites we reviewed.
If you can do some of these things, you will be noticed as well (my point).
Try to stand out from the rest of the Bloggers. (yes it is hard but can be done)
I will help any fellow blogger that asks for it. Do not worry about "Talking to the Press". Some people are offended by News Sites.
WHY ? - I have no idea.
In any event, do not be fooled by scammers, if you need something or want to meet more fellow bloggers, this can be arranged.
Everything (names included) are kept in secret confidence here (unless otherwise noted). I talk to alot of bloggers indeed and will continue. Do not worry about posting a comment !
If I do not think it is "News Worthy" I will not post it. If it is private, I will not post it (nor will my staff or Co-Author). Oh , to end this story on a positive note, here is a blogger that has a column of her own on OS9USER !!!
Yes, her own column !
In summary, Linda from "Are We There Yet ?" writes about Police Officers Killed In The Line Of Duty.
What she is doing is so honorable, I could not refuse her a section of my site. No other blogger takes the time to remember the fallen hero's of our time, but she does !
Please take the time to visit her homepage. The link above will bring you there.
Please note, I could have filled this posting up with fancy words , but I did not want the meaning to get distorted, so I did not do it.
Right from the heart (like Linda) to you, this is news to me.
Thank you so much for the shout-out, George, that was really awfully nice of you. This has really been a tough month for law enforcement line of duty deaths and even though I've sent you so many of them already, there's another one I need to send along that I think I forgot to get the link to you the other day.
Truly it's a sad state of affairs when so many of our brave men and women who have taken an oath to protect and serve right here at home are dieing right under our noses and so few people ever know about it.
It's my privilege and honor to recognize them in my Line of Duty death posts as if it touches even one person, I think I've done my job. These heroes deserve to be remembered.
"(Biden’s) own chief of staff, Ron Klain, would say last year that it was pure luck, that they did ‘everything possible wrong’ (with H1N1). And we learned from that."
"There are estimates that by the end of the term of this administration, they will have lost more jobs than almost any other presidential administration."
That Rose Garden event — there's been a great deal of speculation about it — my wife Karen and I were there and honored to be there. Many of the people who were at that event, Susan, were actually tested for coronavirus, and it was an outdoor event, which all of our scientists r...
Thank you so much for the shout-out, George, that was really awfully nice of you. This has really been a tough month for law enforcement line of duty deaths and even though I've sent you so many of them already, there's another one I need to send along that I think I forgot to get the link to you the other day.
Truly it's a sad state of affairs when so many of our brave men and women who have taken an oath to protect and serve right here at home are dieing right under our noses and so few people ever know about it.
It's my privilege and honor to recognize them in my Line of Duty death posts as if it touches even one person, I think I've done my job. These heroes deserve to be remembered.