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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NASA Detects Building-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
April 20, 2020
NASA’s asteroid tracking system has detected a massive near-Earth object that’s expected to approach Earth on Monday (April 20). According to the agency, the approaching asteroid follows a natural trajectory that intersects Earth’s orbit.
The incoming asteroid has been identified by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) as 2020 GA3. As indicated in the agency’s database, this space rock measures about 194 feet wide, which makes it bigger than the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
CNEOS estimated that 2020 GA3 would approach Earth at an average speed of almost 40,000 miles per hour.
According to NASA, 2020 GA3 was first observed on April 15. After analyzing its trajectory, NASA classified it as an Apollo asteroid. As noted by the agency, 2020 GA3 follows a very wide orbit around the Sun. Occasionally, the asteroid reaches beyond the orbit of Mars.
Like other asteroids that belong to the Apollo family, 2020 GA3 is known to intersect Earth’s orbit as the planet completes its cycle around the Sun. These Earth-intersecting flybys usually occur when the asteroid is approaching its closest distance from the center of the Solar System.
Through observations on its trajectory, NASA was able to determine 2020 GA3’s history of near-Earth approaches. According to the agency, the asteroid’s first recorded near-Earth flyby occurred on Sept. 2, 1966.
During this time, the asteroid flew past the planet from a distance of about 0.35328 astronomical units, which is equivalent to almost 33 million miles away. According to CNEOS, 2020 GA3 is expected to cross Earth’s path on April 20 at 5:50 p.m. EDT. As the asteroid flies past Earth, it will be about 0.02076 astronomical units or around 1.9 million miles from the planet’s center.
Based on NASA’s projection of the asteroid’s orbit, 2020 GA3 will not return to Earth’s neighborhood until Oct. 28, 2029. During this time, the asteroid will approach Earth from a much farther distance. According to the agency, the asteroid will pass by Earth from a distance of 0.09900 astronomical units or around 9.2 million miles during its approach in less than a decade from now.
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