Posted on 06/06/2017 6:23:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN) -- A 25-year-old federal contractor is accused of leaking classified information regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack to an online news outlet.
The Justice Department announced charges on Monday against Reality Leigh Winner, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation in Georgia. She is accused of "removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet," according to a federal complaint.
Who is Reality Winner?
-- Winner is a federal contractor with Top Secret security clearance. She had been assigned to a US government agency facility in Georgia since February 13.
-- She is accused of leaking classified information, used as the basis for an article published Monday by The Intercept, detailing a classified National Security Agency memo. The NSA report, dated May 5, provides details of a 2016 Russian cyberattack on a US voting software supplier, though there is no evidence that any votes were affected by the hack.
-- Winner was a linguist in the US Air Force in Maryland who speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari, her mother, Billie Winner said.
-- She was raised in Kingsville, Texas, and served in the Air Force in Columbia, Maryland. Her mother confirmed she was a federal contractor in Augusta but did not know the nature of her work, or if she had contracted for the NSA.
-- Winner is an athlete who loves animals, her mother said, through tears.
-- She also said her daughter wasn't especially political and hadn't ever praised past leakers like Edward Snowden to her.
-- "She's never ever given me any kind of indication that she was in favor of that at all," her mother said. "I don't know how to explain it."
-- Winner spent six years in the military, said Titus Nichols, her court-appointed attorney.
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Undoubtedly got that from her father, whose favorite line simply has to be, "Reality's a bitch."
This small town TX girl appears to be converted at the Air Force linguistic school .
Kingville TX is not a left wing haven. How many middle east Muslims teaching there...!
Anyone recall the Fort hood TX terrorist attack was a Arab interpreter !
She was running around wearing a Muslim scarf in recent photos ! Her Nsa contractor employer not checking her social media activity is unbelievable . More to this story.
There is at least one new account based on her name, but this is likely the original.
Up until last year, my 25-year-old daughter refused to 'friend' her mom. (my wife)
Then, finally, she relented and added her mom.
Looking at the above picture, I have a very sick feeling that she will eventually go the Bradley/Chelsea manning route.
LOL...I don't suppose the mediots are lining up to interview HIM.
lol
She needs to be Jailed.
Period.
It’s called espionage.
So she can count you out for her GoFundMe?
oh that’s a good one
“...So she can count you out for her GoFundMe?...”
Chuckle... indeed...
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