Posted on 08/23/2018 10:03:50 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
JUSTICE! Anti-Trump NSA Leaker Just Got Served a Devastating Sentence August 23, 2018
The anti-Trump NSA leaker who goes by the name "Reality Winner" just got a dose of reality and lost big.
The 26-year-old woman was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for leaking classified documents.
Fox News
Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner on Thursday was sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking a classified report with information on Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
Winner, 26, was sentenced to 63 months, with no fine in a Georgia courtroom. She received an additional three years of supervised release.
The prisoner's mom had tears streaming down her face as the sentence was read. Winner appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Winner's defense team said they felt the sentence, reportedly the longest ever imposed for a federal media leak crime, was "fair."
Winner, an Air Force veteran, pleaded guilty in June after being held in prison at the Lincoln County Jail near Augusta, Georgia. Winner was arrested in June 2017, and charged under the Espionage Act for removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, according to the Justice Department.
Winner's 2017 arrest was announced shortly after the Intercept website published a story detailing how Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent so-called "spear-phishing" emails to more than 100 local election officials at the end of October or beginning of November 2016.
The Justice Department did not specify that Winner was being charged in connection with the Intercept's report. However, the site noted that the NSA report cited in its story was dated May 5, 2017. An affidavit supporting Winner's arrest also said the report was dated "on or about" May 5, 2017.
Winner worked as a contractor with a Top Secret security clearance with Pluribus International Corporation at a federal facility in Georgia when she printed out a sheet of paper with classified information and mailed it to a news outlet, according to the Justice Department.
Winner had a colorful history on social media that laid bare her political leanings, and wanted to "resist" President Trump.
At the time of her arrest in 2017, Winner's social media pages indicate she was a passionate environmentalist who shared Bernie Sanders material online and held some anti-Trump views. She shared numerous articles and comments against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines (which Trump has moved to revive) on her Facebook page, even posting a letter she sent to the office of Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.
"Repeat after me: In the United States of America, in the year 2017, access to clean, fresh water is not a right, but a privilege based off of one’s socio-economic status," Winner wrote in a Facebook posting last year.
Winner also posted using the hashtag #F—ingWall, in an entry about Trump "silencing" the Environment Protection Agency.
Winner also posted last February, before Trump revived construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline: "You have got to be s—ting me right now. No one has called? The White House shut down their phone lines. There have been protests for months, at both the drilling site and outside the White House. I'm losing my mind. If you voted for this piece of s—, explain this. He's lying. He's blatantly lying and the second largest supply of freshwater in the country is now at risk. #NoDAPL #NeverMyPresident #Resist."
And in one telling post before the 2016 general election, she wrote, "On a positive note, this Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport." Air Force officials confirmed that Winner served active duty from December of 2010 to December 2016. Winner was a cryptologic language analyst, requiring fluency in at least one foreign language which was not divulged. Winner attained the rank of senior airmen, E4, and was last stationed at Ft. Mead in Maryland.
Five years in prison is not ‘devastating’ to someone like Reality. Just a few days ago, there were articles saying she could have been sentenced to LIFE in prison.
She’s the kind of person I expect will have lots of strange tattoos in the near future. Yes, I’m generalizing.
In six years of a crypto language billet she achieved E-4? What a fast mover! LOL She seems the type who might actually enjoy a woman’s prison, if you take my meaning.
Now they can prosecute Hillary and Huma and co-conspirators for copying and sending classified documents via her unsecure home computer to the pervert’s laptop (and probably on to Iran, Russia, etc).
Give Hillary 5 years PER infraction and leave the bones in the cell for the full duration of the sentence.
This is your brain on liberalism... Any questions?
She probably still has her security clearance.
One low level sacrificial Marxist lamb down for just a few years.
There is a photo of her getting out of the police car on the way to being sentenced. She smiled for the cameras and looked downright happy. Very proud of herself and probably having a lot of sex in jail.
She should have been sentenced to firing squad.
Geez just 5 years. Pussy pass is alive and well.
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Nice.
Where is McCabe for leaking?
Where is Comey for leaking?
Where is Brennan for leaking?
Where is Strzok for leaking?
Where is Bruce Ohr for leaking?
Two-tiered justice system is no justice system.
this Fox article gives the impression Russia affected the election, e.g.
“with information on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election”
“how Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier”
most other reporting admit it was “ATTEMPTS to hack election officials”.
23 Aug: Reuters: Reality Winner sentenced for leaking top secret U.S. report
by Gina Cherelus
The NSA document she gave the news outlet contained technical details on what it said were Russian ATTEMPTS to hack election officials in the United States and a voting-machine company before the November 2016 presidential election, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the case have said...
A federal judge had ordered that Winner be held without bond after prosecutors said she posed a flight risk and public danger, citing what they called “disturbing” comments in her notebook.
In one section Winner wrote: “I want to burn the White House down,” according to prosecutors, who said investigators also found the names of three Islamic extremists known to federal authorities listed in her notebook...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-leaks/reality-winner-sentenced-for-leaking-top-secret-u-s-report-idUSKCN1L81FD
SO WAS IT JUST “ATTEMPTS”? IF SO, WHY DIDN’T FOX SAY SO.
Reality looks like one of those teachers who had sex with one of her 14 year-old students.
It appears that prison chow agrees with her...
Is there still a “hard labor” caveat attached to sentencing?
She should have gotten at least 20 years.
The ‘attempts’ is the classified part of that - goes to method and means - by releasing that info the Russians would know how the material was intercepted and where it came form and would change whatever was needed so it could not happen again.
Life would have been too short. 5 years is a joke, unless she has an unforeseen ‘accident’ ...
Five years plus any future career is OVER
About twenty years ago, the whole Air Force promotion trend flipped, and you started to see people getting to E4 and stuck there for three to five years. I don’t know about her language billet, but I’d take a guess that she figured out the pay difference as a contractor, and it just made more sense to go that direction.
Course, she missed the intel school class on security, and the threat of divulging classified. She’ll wrap up five years in prison, have a useless background for any job in the future, and likely end up as a coffee barista or Kroger clerk.
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