Free Reality Winner: Billie Jean Winner Davis and Wendy Collins

In 2017, while employed by a military contractor, Air Force veteran Reality Leigh Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections to the news website The Intercept.

Though the threats to the elections proved to be true, Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in prison—one of the heaviest of its kind ever given. Since then she has been subject to periods solitary confinement and other harsh punishments.

While clearly a whistleblower, Winner is being treated as a traitor by her country.

We speak with Reality Winner’s mother, Billie Jean Winner Davis, and longtime friend and advocate, Wendy Collins, about the particulars of the case, and what listeners can do to help.