Gov't contractor charged with leaking classified info to media

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/336432-federal-government-contractor-charged-for-leaking-classified-material

Gov't contractor charged with leaking classified info to media
By Olivia Beavers - 06/05/17 06:00 PM EDT


The Department of Justice charged 25-year-old government contractor Reality Leigh Winner with sharing top secret material with a media outlet, prosecutors announced in a press release Monday.

Court documents filed by the government don't specify which media outlet received the materials allegedly leaked by Winner, but NBC News reported that the material went to the Intercept online news outlet.

The Intercept published a top secret NSA report Monday that alleged Russian military intelligence launched a 2016 cyberattack on a voting software company.

Details on the report published by The Intercept suggest that it was created on May 5, 2017 — the same day prosecutors say the materials Winner is charged with sharing were created. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on whether Winner is accused of sharing the report published by the Intercept.

Last month, Winner allegedly “printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information” before mailing the materials to an unnamed online news outlet a few days later, according to prosecutors.

Winner, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation, began working for a government agency based in Georgia in February.

The FBI obtained a warrant over the weekend to search Winner’s home, where she admitted to intentionally removing classified materials, retaining them, and then mailing them to the news outlet, according to the release.

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[underpants]

1. Reality Winner - now THAT'S a name

[NightWatcher]

2. Sweet Goddess of Irony, her name is Reality Winner!!!

I'm running to grab a Powerball ticket right fugging now.

[Squinch]

3. This information is a big deal. I hope she doesn't go to jail.

It's hard to know how to feel about this. In normal times, you can't have the government leaking like a strainer, but yet in this administration, the leakers may very well save all our lives. Or at least our democracy.

I hate Trump so much for making our country what he has made it.

[Adrahil]

6. The law still applies, but....

If a patriot feels strongly enough about it, perhaps they ar willing to risk their own freedom to get the info out there. But at least she did not run to Russia....

[Squinch]

9. The poor thing. Can you imagine the torture of being in that position?

[Adrahil]

12. I can't.....

If she took one for the Republic, then I wish her well!

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Hey! Fat Fascist 45 said this is all a hoax...

how come they are arresting someone for telling lies to the press?

(snark)

[JHan]

5. "Reality Winner" - ... Lord... I can't anymore with this world.

[malaise]

7. Well looks like she exposed the

Reality Loser aka Don the Con

[mcar]

11. Good one, malaise

[CentralMass]

8. Ouch. I suspect that her reality won't be a pleasant one.

[Mr. Ected]

10. To think how many other Americans have knowledge that is damning to this stolen election

And are forced to maintain silence to protect the treasonous bastards who orchestrated it all.