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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Unless, of course, she has valuable information to disclose.
She’s F’ing 25 YEARS OLD!!! WHY would you give a KID a TOP SECRET Security Clearance????? STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!! WHO is her SUPERIOR??? DUMB.
For which leak is this?
Winner is a loser.
Reality sucks.
This may no longer be a crime. Comey said it “depends”.
She needs to look in the mirror and face Reality. She could do serious time.
Reality Winner...screwed up her free taco dinner.
At the age of 21 I was a Communications operator on a TACAMO aircraft with the highest clearances the government had to offer.
I was responsible for send “the end of the world” message to ballistic missile submarines. And I handled all the crypto etc.
21 is PLENTY old enough to go to prison. Just ask Merle Haggard.
Hillary is really praying now.
As far as I can tell, the affidavit makes no mention of Russian attempts to “hack the voting system.” Is that what the news agency who published the story claimed?
And what about news organizations who knowingly receive classified information and then blab it to the public? Shouldn’t they be charged as well?
“Reality” is a first name?
25 years old is NOT a “kid”. The rest of your post is idiotic.
There is nothing in the story to disclose either the news agency that received the Top secret material, or that it was ever published. Leak is about a month old. Leaker confessed.
Too bad she didn’t set up a felonius email server in her bathroom. Then she could skate. /Hillary Clinton
I knew dozens of Airmen with TS/SCI clearances that were in their early 20’s.
The USSC has found that you cannot prosecute the news org due to the First Amendment.
Though there is great debate as to whether that will one day be overturned.
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