Posted on 06/06/2017 5:05:50 AM PDT by pabianice
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday charged Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old federal contractor based in Augusta, Georgia, with illegally handling and leaking top secret national security information to the news media. Winner was an employee of Pluribus International, a contractor with a presence at Fort Gordon in Augusta, the site of a large National Security Agency (NSA) facility.
“Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, and appeared in federal court in Augusta this afternoon,” DOJ confirmed in a press release late Monday afternoon.
According to a criminal affidavit signed by Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent Justin C. Garrick, Winner allegedly accessed the top secret information after it was published internally by the federal government on May 5, 2017. On May 9, Winner printed the information and removed it from the government facility and mailed it several days later to an online news outlet.
“The intelligence reporting is classified at the Top Secret level, indicating that its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security,” the affidavit noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
She renamed herself
Round them up. Oh wasn’t she at the White House a week before the leak. Coincidence?
2 things...
First, who hired this wench? Was she put in place for this reason, to be the conduit for this? If so, then this was planned before this nutjob was even hired.
Second: Just because someone has a security clearance, that doesn’t mean you get to see everything at that clearance. It’s on a need to know basis. If she didn’t need to know it, how did she get access to it? Did someone else spoon feed this to her? If so, who was it and why isn’t he/she charged also?
Her mom is Billie Winner-Davis
Eric Snowden, Reality Leigh Winner, Hillary Clinton,,,,,see a pattern here.
Something tells me that this Justice Department is going to throw the book at her. And she should be made an example of.
Like I said. When the net catches the little fish but the big fish go free, something is wrong with the net.
Yeah, but...just what “our side” needs is a Victory and we are getting what sure has the appearance of a distraction.
Oh great it’s a girl. She’ll get scolded until she cries then she’ll get a hug.
Jailed NSA Leaker Reality Winner: ‘Being White is Terrorism’
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56840
Wo hired her. That’s easy. The same person who gave Bradley Manning her security clearance.
Tip of the iceberg
My take is she was hired to “be an example”. (Distraction.)
Why can't the government arrest and prosecute the people at this so called "news outlet" as well?
Why can't the government arrest and prosecute the people at this so called "news outlet" as well?
—as I have thought—if Manning, (a corporal) , Snowden, (a discharged CIA employee hired as a “contractor”) and now this one have access to all sorts of “top secret” material, something is seriously wrong——
We haven’t had a good treason execution for a long time.
Execute this one and the other posers will thick twice about leaking stuff that harms the USA.
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