Posted on 06/09/2017 12:20:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. - An Augusta woman charged with leaking classified information was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count, but prosecutors said they are likely to add more.
A federal magistrate judge held a detention hearing for Reality Winner Thursday afternoon.
The 25-year-old worked as a contractor for the government and is accused of giving classified information from the National Security Agency to an online news outlet.
She entered a not-guilty plea. The judge denied bond.
Prosecutors argued that the only thing Winner could do if she were released on bail is be recruited by the nation’s enemies.
Based on evidence seized from her home, federal prosecutors detailed Winner's alleged plans to burn down the White House and travel to Afghanistan, pledging her allegiance to the Taliban.
They said in recorded jailhouse calls, she told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media— as someone who was scared she’d disappear from an interrogation room in her Augusta home after Saturday’s raid.
Channel 2’s Nicole Carr was invited into Winner’s home by her parents to see the interrogation room.
“This is where they held her when they did the search of the house and this is where they interrogated her,” said Winner’s mother, Billie-Winner Davis.
Winner opted to stay in her house for questioning and confessed her intent to release damaging classified material to an online media outlet she “admired,” directing agents to find a screenshot of the mailing drop box for The Intercept on her cellphone. The material is described as top secret, detailing a Russian military intelligence attack on a U.S. voting supplier.
“She has no history of being a threat to this nation. Only an asset,” said Gary Davis, Winner’s stepfather.
Prosecutors said a phone call to her sister expressed Winner’s confidence in how to play the court during her bond hearing.
“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.
Prosecutors said she also instructed family members to transfer $30,000 into her mother’s account so she’d appear poor enough for a court-appointed attorney.
The government believes those who knew Winner best did not know an alternate side of her, who confessed to wanting to do harm to the nation through the release of classified documents.
“She offered up her life for this nation and to see her treated so vilely is an insult to every person who’s ever worn a uniform,” Davis said.
Prosecutors also said while Winner was serving in the Air Force she put a removable thumb drive into a top-secret computer. The government testified that it has no idea where that drive is now.
The perimeter is secured with scapegoats.
Well, Madonna wanted to blow it up, so perhaps they could have collaborated had she not gotten caught.
Besides this wench, I wonder how many more people out there, need to be nailed?
I was in the military for 32-odd years (military, GS, and contractor). The turning point was the early 1990s. Before that point, everything came in paper-format. I’d go down to the base comm center....pick up a folder at 7AM and everyone could read the traffic over the morning. Significant pieces would be pulled for the leadership.
After the 1990s, it was all available via the internet. Year by year, you just kept seeing more capability...more thumb-drive-like gadgets...more people with clearances.
Personally, I think that someone ought to just come up and say that 50-percent of all people with a TS-clearance don’t really need it and downgrade them. I also think that some continual review of on-line behavior ought to be done by the security folks with anyone holding a TS-clearance...looking at their Facebook or Twitter accounts.
That's weird. Afghanistan? The other report , from FOX, posted here says 'At one point she wrote, "I want to burn the White House down ... find somewhere in Kurdistan to live. Haha." '
This article is just... so weird. "Interrogation room" - as if the FBI installed a brazier and a rack in her kitchen. Is Channel 2 outsourcing its writing to North Koreans?
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” These turncoats never understood the pledge as well as the sacrifices made by those who fought and died so these idiots could have the freedom of speech. I agree that there are probably more out there than we can imagine. Treasonous acts are not being punished anymore. The USA has lost its moral authority. Make America Great Again. . .Make America Godly Again. Not to put God at the head of everything we do can only bring more disaster to our country.
Also, she looks like a musclebound tranny and has disgusting tattoos.
The Democrats need to defend her. After all Hillary was defended from EmailGate, UraniumGate and a host of other things. The Law does not apply to Democrats so what is a Felony or two?
How can you plead “not guilty” in could after admitting to the FBI that you committed the crime?
...in court...
I’m not confident that anything will happen to Winner. I’d love to see her get 10 years for each incident, but these traitors always seem to skate.
I’m still waiting for DJT and the AG to get Hillary and LOCK HER UP!
“How can you plead “not guilty” in could after admitting to the FBI that you committed the crime?”
I suspect the reasoning would go something like this; “Sure, I did something to harm the government, but the government is awful and ‘illegitimate’ and needs to be destroyed. Therefore I am not guilty of doing anything bad.”
Cross check voting registration, college clubs , IRS donations, and COEXIST bumpers sticks.
That is the first cut.
“I’m pretty, white and cute,”
Well she is white.
She’s a SKANK!!
What's wrong with that prosecutor! She would not need any recruiting... she has already enlisted to serve with our nation's enemies.
Here's 1) Winner's tweet (posted under her Twitter aka) to the Iranian President Rouhani's Minister of Foreign Affairs and 2) Rouhani's declaration against America
Pleading “Not Guilty” in arraignment and detention hearings is a legal maneuver to protect the rights of the accused and to allow room for negotiating a plea deal to a lesser charge. In many cases, the bench will enter a “not guilty” plea on behalf of a defendant who wishes to plead guilty. It’s all procedural.
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