"Her continued incarceration is costly, unnecessary to protect the public, burdensome to her health and wellbeing, and not commensurate with the severity of her offense," wrote Alison Grinter, the attorney representing Winner, in a petition for the commutation of her client's sentence last week.

News of the request comes on the heels of Trump's sweeping -- and controversial -- show of clemency on Tuesday, when he commuted the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in granting nearly a dozen high profile pardons and commutations.

Winner, a US Air Force veteran, was sentenced to prison for more than five years in August 2018 as part of a deal in which she pleaded guilty to leaking a classified NSA document providing details of a 2016 Russian cyberattack on a supplier of US voting software. She's serving the longest sentence ever given to a journalistic source by a federal court, according to the Department of Justice.

Grinter noted that Winner was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bulimia and is "enduring substantial suffering" due to the lack of treatment at FMC Carswell, the federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, where she's been held.

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