Posted on 06/05/2017 3:44:45 PM PDT by Mariner
A 25-year-old federal contractor is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May.
The charges against Reality Leigh Winner came about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems in 2016.
President Trump has been pushing Justice to go after leakers inside the federal government, which he has identified as "the big story" when it comes to Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Winner's arrest could signal the federal government is going to aggressively investigate and prosecute individuals who send classified intelligence to news organizations.
Trump and other Republican allies in Washington have made pursuing leakers one of their top priorities, but Winner is the first to face charges for releasing classified intelligence.
Winner, of Augusta, Ga., is facing charges that she removed classified material from a government facility and mailed it to a news outlet. She was arrested on Saturday and appeared on the charge Monday.
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“Are you trying to tell us that women are too damn dumb to be trusted with classified?”
Yes. Where the hell have you been?
They can’t be trusted with the vote let alone what’s left of our nation’s secrets.
We didn’t survive the Clintons & Obamas put in office by the female vote.
Pull till ya hear a pop.
I agree, I had on at 18.
Story smells; the story that detailed how she was caught provided far too much detail given that it is a story on a leaker. Why inform other likeminded individuals of what not to do - unless you want them to improve their leaking skills?
Feels like the powers that be reallyreallyreallyreally want everyone to accept the story in the Intercept as bona fide...all articles tripped over themselves to make sure we could find the “offending” article. Is that required info to include in an indictment?
The Intercept’s parent org is First Look Media. Another related outlet is “reported.ly”... Ebay & FLM’s founder, Omidyar, is a backer of the Poynter Institute, the Sunlight Foundation, and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative...
his biggest collaboration is with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald who published Snowden’s NSA leak material.
I don’t think these guys would make the “stupid mistake” that exposed “Reality Winner” unless it were on purpose. Can they be that stupid?
Wonder if the Awan brothers had anything to do with that
mocking Trump’s “and some are good people” comment about illegals.
Are you trying to tell us that women are too damn dumb to be trusted with classified?
ROFL!!!
Time to stop digging ... you're at the bottom of a really deep hole.
YES, she's chick an in my experience chicks for the most part are libs. Here it's confirmed by her name "Reality."
And libs are ALWAYS subversives, especially chicks!
The $64,000 question is WHO hired Reality?
Chicks in gov. are the major problem in today's world. They ALL belong in the kitchen or boudoir!
Quite men are talking!!!!!
Yup
It has hit me now, though, that this story is a yarn. Were this young woman a true Bernie supporter, she would have been furious at H3ll, not Trump. The Russia piece doesn’t jibe with her support of Iran over America.
It’s an intelligence narrative, put out by the Bilderbergers via the Deep State IC.
It’s A and Bernie. But mostly A. Her twitter was polluted with Obama Third Term stuff.
Paid for that trip with documents?
Transferred to Augusta GA in Feb 2017; before that she was in living in Md and working in the company’s place in Alexandria according to one report
Winner served as a linguist in the Air Force and is fluent in Pashto, Farsi, and Dari. She maintained a top secret clearance after her time in the service.
Winner enlisted in the service in 2013, serving as an airman first class with the 94th Intelligence Squadron at Fort Meade, Maryland, until earlier this year when she separated.
Aldrich Ames.
Robert Hanssen.
John Walker.
Jonathan Pollard.
James Hall.
Harold Nicholson.
George Trofimoff.
Brian Regan.
Your heads: Get them out of your asses.
Lots of 18 year olds who are going into classified military career fields get their clearances. The biggest problem is that they haven't really had time to display some unfavorable tendencies or have them documented.
There ya go. Liberal rats always support each other no matter the cost to national security. And of course this happen on Obama's watch.....
And that’s part of America’s problem...that we still see 25 year old adults as “kids”!
ANYONE and EVERYONE that is a Bernie Supporter are KIDS!! They are NOT MATURE enough to do anything!
I’m not disagreeing with you....I’m just saying it’s a shame that we would have to refer to a 25 year old as still “a kid”!
25 years old is NOT a “kid”. The rest of your post is idiotic.
A 25 year old shouldn’t be a “kid.” But, in this era of jammy pant wearing, snap chat puppy faces, on your folks insurance until you are 26 era, sadly it isn’t adequately adult in many cases either.
And let’s hold back on the “idiotic” judgments against Ann Archy whippersnapper. That’s childish.
Actually, she is a mature woman who served in the US Air Force.
It is certain that her service was with a high security clearance that allowed her to get the job where she betrayed America.
She was indoctrinated in Maryland where she went to High School.
She was radicalized because the goal of all young women is to make a difference.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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