FOCUS: James Risen | Paul Manafort Didn't Get Off Easy - Unless You Compare Him to Whistleblower Reality Winner

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09 March 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE WON'T CUT YOU OFF, BUT WE DO NEED YOUR HELP: How many people out there have been cut off by a corporate service provider for not paying their bill? Most likely everyone, at one time or another for one reason or another. In the 15 years we have been doing this we have never cut anyone off for not paying ... and we never will. We go the far harder route of earning your support through our efforts on your behalf. Our challenge is find a way to pay the organization's bills. The bills are relatively small, but we do have to pay them. If you are not an active donor please join those who are. Onward. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: James Risen | Paul Manafort Didn't Get Off Easy - Unless You Compare Him to Whistleblower Reality Winner  James Risen, The Intercept  EXCERPT: Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor, wanted the American people to know about the threat Russia posed to the U.S. electoral system. She pleaded guilty last year in a case in which she was charged in connection with the disclosure of an NSA document that detailed efforts by Russian intelligence to hack American voting systems. The Intercept published a story based on that document in 2017. In 2018, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report that showed it was the press, not the federal government, that deserved credit for warning state elections officials to the growing Russian threat to their voting systems. The federal government had done next to nothing to alert them to the problem, and many state officials didn’t realize that there even was a threat until they learned about it from the press. In other words, Winner performed a public service, one that even the U.S. Senate has indirectly, and grudgingly, acknowledged. Risen writes: "Paul Manafort didn't get off easy. He is going to prison, and anyone who has stared down that prospect knows that there is nothing easy about it." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation