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Federal contractor Reality Leigh Winner arrested for sending classified NSA intelligence(trunc)
The Washington Examiner ^ | June 5th, 2017 | by Kyle Feldscher

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: belize; fortmeade; ftmeade; leaker; nsa; nsaleaker; realitywinner; sessions
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To: Mariner

Guess you probably spent more than a few days at Tinker?


21 posted on 06/05/2017 3:59:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Mariner


22 posted on 06/05/2017 3:59:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: NorthMountain

Thanks Newbie ish....your are very intelligent...I bow to you.


23 posted on 06/05/2017 4:00:12 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tai_Chung

Yes, she will do serious time. Just another liberal useful idiot. Will the DNC be paying her bail?

I didn’t think so, either.


24 posted on 06/05/2017 4:00:17 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Mariner

She’s a plant working for the resistance...


25 posted on 06/05/2017 4:00:26 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: SaveFerris

No. Not Tinker.

NAS Agana and several others throughout the Pacific.


26 posted on 06/05/2017 4:00:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

"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

27 posted on 06/05/2017 4:01:04 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: EEGator

This was in the WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!! And a CHICK!!


28 posted on 06/05/2017 4:01:16 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

You would be shocked to find out who has secret and top secret clearances, both in the government and contractors.


29 posted on 06/05/2017 4:01:50 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Every Saint has a past, Every Sinner has a Future!)
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To: Ann Archy

A contractor means that she wasn’t enployed by the government...


30 posted on 06/05/2017 4:01:56 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Mariner

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.


31 posted on 06/05/2017 4:02:11 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
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To: Mariner

10 years sharing a cell with Big Bertha would be a slap of reality for Reality.


32 posted on 06/05/2017 4:02:23 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Mariner; SkyPilot

[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”?


33 posted on 06/05/2017 4:02:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Ann Archy
I see. You know that I'm right, but can't bring yourself to admit it ... so you resort to juvenile insults.

Keep it classy, Annie ...

34 posted on 06/05/2017 4:03:00 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Mariner

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


35 posted on 06/05/2017 4:03:26 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Mariner
-- The USSC has found that you cannot prosecute the news org due to the First Amendment. --

Got a cite for that proposition? NYT v. US, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) [Pentagon Papers case] was about prior restraint.

36 posted on 06/05/2017 4:03:29 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mariner; SkyPilot

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”?


37 posted on 06/05/2017 4:04:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: ducttape45

“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.”


38 posted on 06/05/2017 4:04:24 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Hmmmm, how many of the leaks have been coming from government contactors?


39 posted on 06/05/2017 4:04:35 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Mariner

Hmmmm, how many of the leaks have been coming from government contactors?


40 posted on 06/05/2017 4:04:39 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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