News of South Texas native Reality Winner is on the rise. Last month, it was the stage-to-film adaptation Reality receiving high praise at its Berlinale world premiere, leading HBO Films to acquire rights for a release expected no later than May. By year’s end, it’s the arrival of the Codebreaker Films documentary, United States vs. Reality Winner. Meanwhile, production has already wrapped on the dark comedy Winner. Headlines keep coming.
All the publicity will surely encourage supporters of the whistleblower known—and convicted—for leaking top-secret evidence of Kremlin hackers targeting the 2016 elections. But just this past December, the New York Times painted a less-than-celebratory picture.
The Times portrayed an understandably despondent Winner, now 31, on parole-like supervised release at her family’s Kingsville home, lamenting how, as a result of her leak, nothing changed, an outcome she found even worse than her prison term—five years, three months—the longest sentence ever imposed on a civilian defendant for unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to the media. The onetime linguist for a National Security Agency contractor told the paper her pain stems from “knowing that you really didn’t change anything. Nobody cares.”
Yet the classified NSA report she snail-mailed to the Intercept in 2017 remains more relevant than typically realized. The five pages—buttressed by several corroborations that surfaced after their publication—detail a multi-stage...
Tehran – Saba: The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the subversive actions taken by the rulers of Abu Dhabi against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Last night, Tasnim News Agency reported that the...