Reality Winner Wins 5 Years in Prison

A reading of the linked article showed that Reality Winner had contempt for capitalism and its impact on the environment. She also supported Edward Snowden. She showed intent by using software that allowed her to hide her tracks. You saw what transpired after that.

Yes, she definitely knew that she was doing something that she wasn’t supposed to do.

From The New York Times:

Ms. Winner’s lawyers asked the judge to take into account in sentencing that she had served honorably in the Air Force, had been a top student and had no prior criminal record. “She is someone who has done something she should not have done — and knows she should not have done,” John Bell, one of Ms. Winner’s lawyers, told Judge Hall. “But she’s not an evil person.”

It appears that the court opted for the lesser sentence, instead of going to a trial where she could’ve faced 10 years of prison. Doing so would’ve exposed more classified material. Ultimately, it was the best interest of national security and other reasons, and not the argument that Reality Winner “Isn’t such a bad person at all” that won her the lesser of the two.

Federal guidelines allowed for a sentence of up to 10 years, but prosecutors agreed in June to a sentence of 63 months, to avoid a trial that would require discussing classified reports and intelligence gathering techniques in open court. Prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum filed this week that such a trial “would compound the exceptionally grave harm to national security already caused by the defendant,” and that the plea agreement “reflects a fair resolution of the defendant’s criminal culpability. ”

She has probably been exposed to reality while in confinement, and will be exposed to more reality after her release, given what she has done. Reality is going to hit Reality Winner like a ton of bricks… Repeatedly.

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