Free Heroic Russian Election Interference Whistle-Blower Reality Leigh Winner-We Will Not Leave Our Sister Behind

Here is a link to the recently set up Stand With Reality website (which will link you to Facebook and Twitter) for all kinds of information about the Reality Leigh Winner case, a place to sign a petition for her release, and to donate to her legal defense fund.

https://standwithreality.org/

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By Political Reporter Frank Jackman

Okay, sometimes in politics, in world affairs, you have to go by the numbers, go by the seat of your pants in effect. Take this never-ending unfolding revelation, or series of revelations, about Russian cyber-and who knows what else attacks on the American presidential elections of 2016. And who, and who did not, have contacts with agents of the Russian government. The most recent expose (July 2017), or self-expose maybe a better way to put the matter, of a meeting between Donald J. Trump, Jr. and a lawyer connected to the Putin Kremlin operations only confirms that lots of things were going on, maybe still going on between the Trump administration and various Russian agents. The point, a very important point, is that nobody is, and probably nobody will, be sitting a stinking jail cell for what they did-or what they told to some media sources on the QT, on condition of anonymity. Even from the bowels of the White House.  

That second to last sentence is my point today. Somebody is sitting in jail, in a county jail down in Georgia, for giving us, the American people, documents which confirm that the Russians were knee-deep, hell, waist-deep, no, hell again, neck deep in hacking the American election process last year. Who? One recent ex-Air Force service person and thereafter employee of an NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner. Why? Reality Leigh Winner blew the whistle and allegedly provided a social media platform Intercept with the “top-secret” NSA documents detailing Russian interference back in June. For that alleged transgression she had been charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 (the same Act that the recently freed soldier Wiki-leaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning was charged under among the charges brought against her) and now faces up to ten years federal imprisonment in a trail now scheduled for October (although as such matters go in the court system, including the federal system that date is not etched in stone).               

The sitting in jail right now pre-trial for what she is alleged to have done is because the magistrate who was in charge of Reality Leigh’s bail hearing deemed her a flight risk. And that is why today I am informing one and all that some voices, some familiar like Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, and other lesser well-known citizen journalist like me, Frank Jackman, are calling for the Department of Justice to back off the charges and free Reality Leigh Winner now. And in case they don’t this space will continue like we did with Chelsea Manning to publicize her case as it goes forward. Until she is freed.