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 ...
Now she can be called Reality Loser.
Reality Leigh Winner is totally different from Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary is a Ctrl-Left liberal who recklessly emailed Top Secret SCI/SAP information to everyone. “Reality” is a Ctrl-Left liberal who recklessly mailed Top Secret SCI/SAP information to the press, which published it to everyone. Apparently, using the US mail was Reality’s mistake.
Something doesn’t smell right with this story. Too easy. Too quick. Confession and social media unscrubbed. I believe this goes to your second point. Either this bitch got to security she was not supposed to have or she was set up and led thru the procedure. Either way she should be given Life in Prison and not be allowed to control the narrative. Hillary, Podesta, Obama, comey, Huma, etc.. all just go ASAP.
Is hanging a penalty for treason? If so, as the AG works his way through all the traitors infesting government, each guilty reprobate should be publicly hanged on the WDC mall.
Have you seen her satanic back tattoos?
> Why can’t the government arrest and prosecute the people at this so called “news outlet” as well?
If Obama’s WH had any patriots, they could have leaked details about the IRS, Benghazi, illegal unmasking, and so much more. We’d want the press to be able to publish proof of those. If Trump’s WH is committing crimes we’d want the press to be able to publish leaks.
Too much of the press today simply wants to attack using any/all leaks rather than filter leaks and only expose crime and corruption. We need the press to be able to freely expose crime and corruption without being able to simply undermine people they don’t like. When we figure out a way to stop the later while allowing the first, I’ll talk about amending the 1st amendment. Ideally, a jury of peers could determine, but the way the justice system works today a news organization would be out of business from legal fees before that happens if the government wants.
Take a lesson from Vlad the Impaler: Crucify her on a tall, sharp stick so others might give pause to their misdeeds...
She is a Bernie supporter. When is the media going to start hounding Sanders for comments? You know, like they would badger President Trump is she had turned out to be one of his supporters?
Agreed, they would be stomping all over each other to get a comment from a GOPer, and then they would all ask it a thousand times and the corrupt media would play it on the news for weeks claiming he is hiding something.
“Oh great it’s a girl.”
More like a foaming at the mouth leftist bull dyke, if the pic on Drudge is an indicator.
The instructors are usually from the middle east !
Anyone recall the arab interpreter that killed all those people at Fort Hood Tx
She was running around sporting a hjab scarf !
She listed arab as one of her Five races in her traffic accident report.
She is a weak minded stooge .
Her air force years would be very enlightening .
Just the tip of the iceberg I bet.
That look will go over very well in prison.
Drudge is reporting she supports Iran.
I’m thinking finally we have a direct connection to VJ
Too much of the press today simply wants to attack using any/all leaks rather than filter leaks and only expose crime and corruption. We need the press to be able to freely expose crime and corruption without being able to simply undermine people they don’t like. When we figure out a way to stop the later while allowing the first, I’ll talk about amending the 1st amendment. Ideally, a jury of peers could determine, but the way the justice system works today a news organization would be out of business from legal fees before that happens if the government wants.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree that the press should be free to expose crime and corruption. However, should they also be free to actively seek and publish Top Secret national security information, as was the case here?
Is it too late for her to change her name to Clinton?
I wonder if she can switch from bull dyke to lipstick lesbian when it suits her political purposes.
I was imagining her playing the lezbo card and Trump saying "Try that defense with the guy who started the FBI".
> should they also be free to actively seek and publish Top Secret national security information
In theory, NO.
In practice, everything will be classified as top secret if that means publishers can be prosecuted. We already overclassify too many things and FOIA requests either claim something doesn’t exist when it does, or redact way too much, in the name of “national security”.
For example, I think Obama claimed Hillary’s 5 year old SoS calendar was classified. And when a judge said it had to be provided for a FOIA request it was mostly redacted. If a leaker provided it, I can see an honest journalist determining one or two meetings should not be made public and not publishing those for national security. But it should not be a crime to publish the rest. My memory is fuzzy and it may have been Lerner or someone else but the amount of redactions could not have been for national security like the claimed.
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