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Reality Leigh Winner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy.com ^ | June 5, 2017

Posted on 06/05/2017 4:12:26 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

A 25-year-old federal contract worker from Augusta, Georgia has been charged by the Department of Justice for taking Top Secret materials from her workplace and mailing them to a news outlet.

Reality Leigh Winner was arrested by the F.B.I. on June 3 and appeared in federal court in Augusta on June 5. She was charged with gathering, transmitting or losing defense information that could have been damaging to the U.S. It’s alleged that she took a Top Secret document, copied it and mailed it to a news organization, believed to be a podcast that wasn’t identified by authorities.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Winner Is a Former Member of the Military & Worked for a Government Contractor

Winner was an employee at Pluribus International Corporation based out of Alexandria, Virginia. She was then assigned to a government agency in Georgia. She’s was employed at the facility since February 13 and held a Top Secret security clearance ever since then.

Pluribus is an analytical and engineering service that provides its services to federal, defense, security and the intelligence community. The company has 22 locations across the world, including three in the Republic of Korea. The one located in Georgia is in Fort Gordon.

Prior to working for Pluribus, Winner was an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force.

2. A Search Warrant Said the F.B.I. Was Tipped off by a Podcast According to a search warrant obtained by Heavy, a special agent with the F.B.I. received information that Winner possessed and willfully sent classified information that was believed to result in damage to national security. The agency received the tip from the news outlet that received the document on June 1 saying that it may have received and published classified information. The court document said that the reporting was published by the news outlet May 5.

After launching an investigation, they found that Winner was one of six people who had access to the document in question on her computer. When investigating those six people, authorities found out that Winner had email contact with the news outlet on March 30 and then again March 31 from her personal email account.

In that email, Winner had asked for transcripts of a specific podcast, and a second email confirmed that she had subscribed to the podcast.

She allegedly “printed and improperly removed and transmitted classified information from a defense agency of the U.S. government.”

After she printed the information, she mailed the document to the outlet, and the letter was postmarked with Augusta, Georgia.

Read the full 21-page search warrant request below:

3. Winner Admitted to Sharing the Classified Information to Authorities During an Interview

According to the criminal complaint, the F.B.I. executed its search warrant on Winner’s home and vehicle and found evidence that she had shared the classified information.

4. She Faces 10 Years in a Federal Prison

Winner is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but faces 10 years in a federal prison if found guilty of the charge.

The prosecution of Winner is being handled by Julie A. Edelstein of the Department of Justice’s National Security Divisions Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, a news release by the agency said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia is also on the case.

5.She Is From Texas & Lived in Maryland

Winner didn’t have a past criminal record, and her Facebook profile said that she was born in Kingsville, Texas.

The one thing she had on her record was one citation, issued December 13, 2016, in Howard, Maryland for failing to control her vehicle’s speed on a highway to avoid a collision.

She reportedly went to H.M. King High School and lived in Columbia, Maryland at a time.

The last post on her Facebook on June 2 said: “You are what you love, not who loves you.”


TOPICS: US: Maryland; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 201703; 20170330; 20170331; 20170505; 20170603; greenwald; intercept; julieedelstein; nsaleaker; podcast; realitywinner; realitywinnerbio; snowden; theintercept; winner
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To: Rennes Templar

More like: Fantasy Lee Loser


21 posted on 06/05/2017 4:32:58 PM PDT by waus
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To: Rennes Templar

And Hillary is still free


22 posted on 06/05/2017 4:33:12 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: wastoute; Rennes Templar; Sarah Barracuda

Very unwise of her to call the President a POS in a Facebook post. But in a sea of leakers, she’s not a whale, she’s more like a sardine. But it’s a start, but I’ll be impressed if/when some big offenders get indicted.


23 posted on 06/05/2017 4:33:37 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She should have jumped!


24 posted on 06/05/2017 4:35:12 PM PDT by CMSMC
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To: Gen.Blather
Do you believe in manmade Global Warming? Are you a Vegan? Do you have a Coexist sticker on your car? Do you have a Tolerance sticker on your car? Do you have a Make Love Not War Sticker on your car? Do you feel like a man/woman trapped in a woman’s/man’s body? Are you a Democrat?

Well, from her twitter posts, it looks like all of the above! She thinks Trump is "a piece of sh*t", but isn't she one?


25 posted on 06/05/2017 4:35:30 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: waus

I noted on Facebook, that in “reality,” a “leigh”ker is a “loser”, not a “winner”.


26 posted on 06/05/2017 4:36:31 PM PDT by T Baden (Tenth Amendment Texan)
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To: Rennes Templar

Did this worthless retard have any dealings with islam?


27 posted on 06/05/2017 4:37:17 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Rennes Templar

Gets a TS clearance on Feb 13th, assigned to Ft. Gordon, GA (that means sigint), delivers material to The Intercept and is busted by June 5th?
Barely out of a 90 day probationary period.
Nobody can be that stupid. Something’s not right.


28 posted on 06/05/2017 4:41:14 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Rennes Templar

She was planted to get info


29 posted on 06/05/2017 4:41:17 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She was doing it for the “Resist” movement .
Now she will see just how much they care about her sorry screwed up ass.
Like not at all.


30 posted on 06/05/2017 4:42:26 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America hating traitor,

She needs to be sent to a country she may like better after she is released form her ten year stint.


31 posted on 06/05/2017 4:43:03 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: roadcat

Very LGTB looking. Be careful using the term “plug” when dealing with leaks.


32 posted on 06/05/2017 4:43:31 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: soycd
Is this her mother or friend?

Allison Leigh Strauss, laywer, JUSTIA, Kingsville, TX.

They tell you to follow the $$, BS. Follow the Lawyers.

33 posted on 06/05/2017 4:44:02 PM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Something’s not right

SomeONES not right and its Destiny or Reality or what ever her screwed up name is.


34 posted on 06/05/2017 4:44:50 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: colorado tanker
At 25 yrs. old if she gets ten years ...sheesh all for sending Top Secret stuff to a news site.....what an idiot!


35 posted on 06/05/2017 4:44:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: colorado tanker

Apparently, an ironic one...


36 posted on 06/05/2017 4:45:14 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: txhurl

Who’s the good looking one?
Where that come from. No common name ?


37 posted on 06/05/2017 4:46:20 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: txhurl

38 posted on 06/05/2017 4:46:30 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: soycd

That hamsa hand charm around her neck increases the odds significantly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa


39 posted on 06/05/2017 4:47:38 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Rennes Templar

Dumb, da dumb dumb, dummmmmmb...


40 posted on 06/05/2017 4:48:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (May the Covfefe be with you...)
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