Joe Biden should pardon Reality Winner for her actions as a whistleblower
(Maybe she could have saved our ass this time)
This article is more than 1 month old from Dec 5, 2024
Opinion by Margaret Sullivan, a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture
Joe Biden should pardon Reality Winner for her actions as a whistleblower
The leaker went to jail for a patriotic, if illegal, act. She has a lot to offer the world if she’s allowed to move on.
In late November, Reality Winner – who turned 33 this week – finished her lengthy punishment for sending a government document to a news organization.
It’s past time for her to be pardoned so that she can move on with her life and, particularly, her education. She wants to be a veterinary technician, get a good-paying job and move out of her mother’s Texas house, but having a felony in one’s background doesn’t help with any of that.
“She doesn’t deserve to be punished forever,” her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told me in an interview this week. “You would think that once you’d served your sentence, you’d be okay, but that doesn’t seem to be true.”
A presidential pardon, of course, would help immensely, in removing the scarlet “F” from her record. And Biden, who pardoned his son Hunter just days ago, may find that the time is finally right since this, too, was a politically driven prosecution.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/05/joe-biden-pardon-reality-winner-whistleblower
Also a recent movie on her called Winner
Trailer for Winner starring Emilia Jones, Kathryn Newton, and Zach Galifianakis
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