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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Earth's magnetic field area appears to be splitting in half
August 18, 2020
NASA researchers say the Earth's magnetic field has a weak spot and it's splitting in two, impacting satellites and other spacecraft.
'Pothole' in space Evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field may impact
There's an evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean – and NASA says it can cause ''big headaches'' for satellites. The South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA, an unusually weak spot in Earth's magnetic field, is growing and splitting into two lobes. For Earthlings, the SAA creates no noticeable harm on the ground – but in space, the anomaly is like a ''pothole'' for satellites and spacecraft.''Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun,'' NASA said in anews release Monday. But it added that the SAA ''allows these particles to dip closer to the surface than normal.''The problem? According to NASA, particle radiation may interfere with onboard computers and data collection in space. If a satellite is hit by a high-energy proton, it can lead to temporary or permanent damage – triggering protective shutdowns by operators as satellites fly through the SAA. Many low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, like the International Space Station, also pass through the SAA. Astronauts are safe inside, but the phenomenon can cause occasional (in the space station's case, monthly) ''blips,'' or short losses, in data collection. The SAA is caused by two features from Earth's core: the flow of molten metals and tilt of the magnetic axis. NASA scientists want to study the anomaly – to better understand how the planet is changing and help create a safer future for in-space instruments.“Even though the SAA is slow-moving, it is going through some change in morphology, so it’s also important that we keep observing it by having continued missions,” Terry Sabaka, a geophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in the statement Monday. “Because that’s what helps us make models and predictions.”
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