Reality Winner (sic).
She got a felony conviction for violating the Espionage Act, and will serve a little over five years in a plea deal, then will need to find a new career, because she will unemployable in her old one.
Posted on 05/09/2019 10:48:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
An indictment was unsealed today charging a former intelligence analyst with illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested this morning and will make his initial appearance today at the federal courthouse in Nashville. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jennifer L. Moore of the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office made the announcement after the charges were unsealed.
According to the indictment, Hale was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force from July 2009 to July 2013, during which time he received language and intelligence training. While serving on active duty, Hale was assigned to work at the National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst. After leaving the U.S. Air Force, Hale was employed by a defense contractor and assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where he worked as a political geography analyst between December 2013 and August 2014. In connection with his active duty service and work for the NSA, and during his time at NGA, Hale held a Top Secret//Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS//SCI) security clearance and was entrusted with access to classified national defense information.
According to allegations in the indictment, beginning in April 2013, while enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and assigned to the NSA, Hale began communicating with a reporter. Hale met with the reporter in person on multiple occasions, and, at times, communicated with the reporter via an encrypted messaging platform. Then, in February 2014, while working as a cleared defense contractor at NGA, Hale printed six classified documents unrelated to his work at NGA and soon after exchanged a series of messages with the reporter. Each of the six documents printed were later published by the reporter’s news outlet.
According to allegations in the indictment, while employed as a cleared defense contractor for NGA, Hale printed from his Top Secret computer 36 documents, including 23 documents unrelated to his work at NGA. Of the 23 documents unrelated to his work at NGA, Hale provided at least 17 to the reporter and/or the reporter’s online news outlet, which published the documents in whole or in part. Eleven of the published documents were classified as Top Secret or Secret and marked as such.
According to allegations in the indictment, in August 2014, Hale’s cell phone contact list included contact information for the reporter, and he possessed two thumb drives. One thumb drive contained a page marked “SECRET” from a classified document that Hale had printed in February 2014 and had attempted to delete from the thumb drive. The other thumb drive contained Tor software and the Tails operating system, which were recommended by the reporter’s online news outlet in an article published on its website regarding how to anonymously “leak” documents.
Hale is charged with obtaining national defense information, retention and transmission of national defense information, causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gordon D. Kromberg and Alexander P. Berrang and Senior Trial Attorney Heather M. Schmidt of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.
An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.
...and what materials were they?
I am Hillary Clinton.
The time to be cryptic, secretive and diligent was before the leaker was hired not after he was caught and you are breaking the story.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/daniel-everette-hale/
Folks are saying the “reporter” is Jeremy ScahiIl of “The intercept.”
“In October of 2015, The Intercept published “The Drone Papers,” a series by Scahill and others based on classified documents related to drone warfare. Scahill published “The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program” in April 2016. “The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars,” the subhead of the story reads. A sweeping piece, written by Scahill and several other Intercept journalists, the main story is by Scahill, The Assassination Complex, which is based on the documents provided by Hale, allegedly. “The whistleblower who leaked the drone papers believes the public is entitled to know how people are placed on kill list and assassinated on orders from the president,” Scahill wrote.”
They must not have anything on Hillary yet.
Who knows. Maybe Jim Acosta. 😁😆🤣 By the way, wasn’t there a former female USAF Airman being charged for something similar? I haven’t heard about her recently.
By the way, I like your tag line. Truer words were never spoken.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Liberal judge: 5 months community service
The intercept was the same group who worked with reality winner. She got 63 months.
“Liberal judge: 5 months community service”...plus, a taxpayer funded sex change, while serving time.
Reality Winner (sic).
She got a felony conviction for violating the Espionage Act, and will serve a little over five years in a plea deal, then will need to find a new career, because she will unemployable in her old one.
She can get a bunch of tattoos and have a rewarding career as a Carney.
Thank you.
He was tattling on Obama.
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