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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Guess you probably spent more than a few days at Tinker?
Thanks Newbie ish....your are very intelligent...I bow to you.
Yes, she will do serious time. Just another liberal useful idiot. Will the DNC be paying her bail?
I didn’t think so, either.
She’s a plant working for the resistance...
No. Not Tinker.
NAS Agana and several others throughout the Pacific.
"Winner was identified because she was one of six people who printed the document off of their computer. Of those six, she was the only one who had any email contact with a news outlet." So, who were the other ones and why would they print out documents? Perhaps they didn't email it but handed the info to whomever. http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/reality-leigh-winner-leak-classified-information-nsa-top-secret-fbi/ Was in USAF. Worked at defense intel. Info sent damaged national security
This was in the WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!! And a CHICK!!
You would be shocked to find out who has secret and top secret clearances, both in the government and contractors.
A contractor means that she wasn’t enployed by the government...
The little people of the world see the big people get away with this stuff all the time and so they think they can too. Then they find out.
10 years sharing a cell with Big Bertha would be a slap of reality for Reality.
[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.]
Did she ever hear the one about Samuel Loring Morison and “Aviation Week”?
Keep it classy, Annie ...
This will be good.
Everyone will have a field day with her liberal wacko name.
Geshhh cant get any more Hippie’ish.
Cant wait to see Mommie and Daddy,they will probably be kinda like Bergdahls.
60’s left overs
Got a cite for that proposition? NYT v. US, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) [Pentagon Papers case] was about prior restraint.
oops - let’s try that again:
[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.]
Did she ever hear the one about Samuel Loring Morison and “Jane’s Defence Weekly”?
“Winner further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation,” the affidavit stated.
“During that conversation, Winner admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue despite not having a ‘need to know,’ and with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was classified.”
Hmmmm, how many of the leaks have been coming from government contactors?
Hmmmm, how many of the leaks have been coming from government contactors?
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