Reality Winner
American intelligence translator
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| 2024 | Susanna Fogel directed a biographical black comedy film titled 'Winner', with Emilia Jones portraying Reality Winner. |
| May 29 2023 | HBO released 'Reality', a film adaptation of 'Is This A Room', directed by Tina Satter and starring Sydney Sweeney as Reality Winner. |
| February 2023 | The film 'Reality', a film adaptation of 'Is This A Room' starring Sydney Sweeney, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. |
| December 5 2021 | Her story was featured in an episode of the CBS series 60 Minutes. |
| October 10 2021 | 'Is This A Room' opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater, running until November 27. |
| June 2 2021 | Reality Winner was transferred from prison to a transitional facility in San Antonio, Texas, after serving part of her sentence through 'good behavior'. |
| June 2 2021 | Released from Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas to a transitional facility. |
| April 21 2021 | Her story was featured in an episode of the TBS series Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. |
| March 2021 | A documentary film about Reality Winner, directed by Sonia Kennebeck, premiered at the South by Southwest festival. |
| September 13 2020 | Winner was recovering from coronavirus, though still experiencing occasional shortness of breath. |
| July 2020 | Winner tested positive for COVID-19 while in federal custody. |
| April 24 2020 | A federal judge rejected Winner's request for home confinement due to COVID-19 pandemic risks, citing her lack of exhaustion of administrative remedies. |
| March 13 2020 | An excerpt from 'Is This A Room' was aired on the radio show This American Life. |
| 2019 | Tina Satter staged the play 'Is This a Room', based on Winner's FBI interview transcript, which was performed at the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen, Netherlands. |
| March 29 2019 | American rock band Son Volt released their ninth studio album 'Union', which includes the track 'Reality Winner' directly referencing her story. |
| August 31 2018 | Winner announced her intention to ask President Trump for clemency, with her legal team beginning to work on a pardon application. |
| August 24 2018 | President Donald Trump tweeted about Winner's sentencing, which prompted her to express appreciation and consider seeking clemency. |
| August 23 2018 | Convicted of removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison as part of a plea deal. |
| June 26 2018 | Winner pleaded guilty to one count of felony transmission of national defense information, with a plea agreement calling for a five-year and three-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release. |
| June 21 2018 | Winner requested the court's permission to change her plea to guilty. |
| January 31 2018 | The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court order blocking Winner from posting bond, ensuring her continued detention until trial. |
| October 5 2017 | Magistrate judge Brian Epps denied a second request from Winner's defense attorneys to set bail. |
| August 29 2017 | Winner's attorneys filed a motion in district court to suppress her statements to law enforcement, arguing that she was not read her Miranda rights during FBI interrogation on June 3. |
| June 8 2017 | Reality Winner pleaded not guilty to the charge of 'willful retention and transmission of national defense information' and was denied bail during her initial court hearing. |
| June 3 2017 | Arrested by federal authorities while employed by Pluribus International Corporation for allegedly leaking an NSA intelligence report about Russian election interference to The Intercept. |
| May 30 2017 | The Intercept sent copies of classified documents to the NSA to confirm their veracity, which ultimately led to the identification of Reality Winner as the leaker. |
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