Reality Winner, the former intelligence contractor found guilty of
leaking, is released to a halfway house.
Reality Winner will spend the next six months in a halfway house and
will then be under supervised release.
Reality Winner will spend the next six months in a halfway house and
will then be under supervised release.Credit...Michael Holahan/The
Augusta Chronicle, via Associated Press
Julian E. Barnes <https://www.nytimes.com/by/julian-e-barnes>
ByJulian E. Barnes <https://www.nytimes.com/by/julian-e-barnes>
* NYT, June 14, 2021,4:12 p.m. ET
Reality L. Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor who was
the first person prosecuted during the Trump administration on charges
of leaking classified information, has been released to a halfway house,
her lawyer announced Monday.
Ms. Winner’s more than five-year sentence was shortened because of good
behavior, though the government will continue to restrict her public
comments.
She was released from Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a prison in Fort
Worth, Texas. She will spend the next six months in a halfway house,
where she will have access to the outdoors and be able to meet with her
family, and then will be under supervised release, her lawyer, Alison
Grinter Allen, said in an interview.
Ms. Winner was held under difficult conditions. The prison lost power
and heat during last winter’s ice storms in Texas, and a number of
fellow inmates died of Covid-19. Her communications were closely
monitored, and the government refused until now to move her to a less
secure facility, Ms. Allen said.
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“It was a terrible, terrible time,” Ms. Allen said. “Not that there is
any great time to be in prison.”
A former Air Force linguist, Ms. Winner entered a guilty plea in 2018
after being prosecuted for leaking classified information. She had been
arrested in 2017 and charged with sending a classified report about
election interference to reporters at The Intercept.
The report described hacks by Russian intelligence operatives against
local election officials and a company that sold software related to
voter registration.
As Ms. Winner began to petition for a pardon or commutation, Ms. Allen
was added to her legal team because her other lawyers were banned from
speaking publicly about the case.
Ms. Winnersought clemency
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/us/Russian-interference-air-force-leak.html>from
President Donald J. Trump, with her legal team submitting thousands of
letters in an effort to get him to intervene in her case. Mr. Trump
never acted.
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Once she is released from the halfway house, she will still not be able
to talk about any of the documents she reviewed while working at the
National Security Agency, but she will be able to speak broadly about
issues that concern her.
“It would surprise me if advocacy and activism was not a part of her
life going forward,” Ms. Allen said, “whether it be about the conditions
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election integrity.”
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