Posted on 06/29/2017 1:27:33 PM PDT by BBell
AUGUSTA, Georgia (CNN) — Among the possible evidence in the government's case against former federal contractor Reality Winner is a notebook with information handwritten in Farsi, prosecutors said in court Tuesday.
The writing is being translated, federal prosecutors told a judge at a hearing.
Winner, who is accused on one count of taking classified information home from work and leaking it to a media outlet, remains in jail awaiting an anticipated October 23 trial.
She has pleaded not guilty.
Winner was a linguist while in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016 and speaks Farsi, Dari and Pashto, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, has said.
The notebook in question came from her workspace at Pluribus International Corp. in Augusta, prosecutors said. It is part of a collection of material in the case beyond the documents allegedly leaked to the Intercept, an online news outlet.
Authorities are also examining two laptops, a tablet and four cellphones seized from Winner's home in Augusta, and are reviewing an interview she gave the FBI before her arrest earlier this month.
The 25-year-old federal contractor was charged with leaking information regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack to The Intercept.
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I learned something new today. I guess I can go to sleep.
Not easy languages to learn. Many years ago, friend introduced me to a really smart black fellow, Berkeley grad, who knew all kinds of Asian languages he learned at the defense language institute school in Monterey, CA.
As I recall he was on some sort of as-needed basis with the government, but spent his time breeding race horses. And drinking.
Our little spy probably attended a school like this.
This chick’s Mother deserves a punch in the nose for the STUPID name she gave her baby daughter.
I cannot WAIT to see how far up the Food Chain her traitorous behavior goes! All the way to 0bama? Oh, how delicious would THAT be?
Yoga notes.
I dunno. I have three homes!!!! </sarc>
I hope that “Reality Winner” can be tried under her real name—whatever it is!!!!
Future wedding planning notes.
and would have written it in my Kookry book.
I don’t really think so.
She’s just one of those types of people who thinks she can save the world and not get caught doing it........................
I attended the language school at the Presidio and the training was first rate. The best way to learn to speak a foreign language is from native speakers — and that was the Language School’s approach.
She has no ME background. She’s from Kingsville, TX, near Corpus Christi and was an intense high school athlete. Probably just a random talent for languages.
Texas A&M has a branch there, so she might have been friendly with Iranians, etc, from there. It would still take freaky natural talent.
For all you people who own cell phones, why does someone need 4 of them?
You must know my brother.
No one could interpret his etchings either...
Four cell phones does not raise my eyebrows too far. My nieces and nephews are always upgrading getting new phones. It’s the latest status symbol thing.
Is that a line out of a movie?
Farsi, Pashto, and Dari are all the same language family as English, but Arabic isn’t.
Farsi used to be the universal language in India, before the British. Now English is the universal language in India.
Good for you. Must have been fascinating. And yet, I know you have to start with a knack or an ear for languages.
Whatever it is, I have ZERO, though excelled at other subjects. My daughter picks up languages wherever she goes...including Arabic, but I’m stuck in English. Proudly:)
The Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) Insider Threat training specifically states that a coworker speaking in Farsi is not something that should not be reported as suspicious. You cannot win a war unless you are willing to identify the enemy.
I would have written it in cursive and given it to Rachel Jeantel for safekeeping.
OK,thank you.
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