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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Obama Wins Democratic Nomination Hillary as VP ?
June 03, 2008
Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic presidential nomination in an historic step toward his goal of becoming the first black US president.
A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to manoeuvre for the vice-presidential spot on his ticket without conceding her own defeat.
Obama's victory sets up a five-month campaign against Republican John McCain.
It will be a race between a 46-year-old opponent of the Iraq War and a 71-year-old former Vietnam prisoner of war and staunch supporter of the current US military mission.
They will vie to succeed President Bush, whose popularity has plummeted as the economy weakens, fuel and food prices soar and the war continues into its sixth year.
Obama, a first-term Illinois senator who was virtually unknown across America four years ago, defeated Clinton, the former first lady and one-time favourite, in a 17-month marathon for the Democratic nomination.
"I can stand here and say I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States," he told supporters at a rally in St Paul, Minnesota.
Clinton praised Obama warmly in an appearance before her supporters in New York.
But she neither acknowledged Obama's victory nor offered a concession of any sort.
Instead, she said she would spend the next few days determining "how to move forward with the best interests of our country and our party guiding my way".
And addressing her supporters in New York Clinton said: "This has been a long campaign and I will be making no decisions tonight."
She appealed to her supporters to contact her on her website and tell her what they think she should do.
Sky's Robert Nisbet described her speech as "extremely clever", saying: "It's a very clever way of staying on in the race without actually staying in the race, of being defeated without actually being defeated."
Obama's victory had been widely assumed for weeks but Clinton's apparent declaration of interest in becoming his running mate was unexpected.
The New York senator reportedly said she was "open to it" if it would help the party's prospects in November.
Clinton's comments have raised the prospect of what many Democrats have called a "Dream Ticket" that would put a black man and a woman on the same ballot, but Obama's aides were noncommittal.
Hillary Clinton has apparently told colleagues she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate but her aides insist she will not step down.
"(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...
