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Posted on 08/15/2018 1:47:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia woman who mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization faces the “longest sentence” ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing.
Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 23 by a U.S. District Court judge in Augusta. She pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national security information when she worked as a translator at an NSA facility in Augusta.
Winner’s plea deal with prosecutors calls for imprisonment of five years and three months. But the sentencing judge isn’t bound by that agreement. Winner’s crime carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.
The Trump administration has made prosecuting government employees who leak sensitive information to the media a high priority, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged to clamp down on leaks last year.
In a court filing Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Winner’s case said the 63-month sentence they’re recommending is plenty stiff to deter other government workers from leaking sensitive information, even if it could be tougher.
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Ridiculously merciful sentence for Reality Loser. An E-1 in the military would be happy to get this for misplacing a classified document.
She did it once. Long prison term. Hillary still walks free.
Five years? I was hoping she’d get some real time.
Reality Winner - no chicken dinner.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I thought revealing secrets was no longer a big deal.
Throughout Washington, calculators are coming out. "How much would I need to get paid for leaks so I could retire for life, after starting from scratch after a 63-month prison term?"
She hasn’t been sentenced.
I want Comey in chains immediately to stand trial.
The left will set up a GoFundMe page soon.
Time for Reality Brennan’s sentence.
Is she going to share a Jail Cell with Hillary and Omarosa?
Yep, I believe in this case and every other the max ten year sentence should apply, and it would be great if this judge wound dish it out because s/he is not bound by this plea agreement.
I’d just as soon they throw away the key, but I think this is enough to deter other entitled snowflake idiots to think twice. I hadn’t heard about this case in a while and was recently wondering what happened. I LOVED that she was too stupid to know that they record prison phone calls and they had her on tape telling a family member how she planned to play the “cute” ( her word, not mine) little waif in court to BS the jury
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What? She didn’t get the Hillary treatment?
I really do not care.
“I’m a [sniff] white girl”.
That’s her damn problem
When does Hillary’s trial start again ?
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