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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReality Winner, Air Force vet who studied yoga in Baltimore, thrust to center of Russian hacking co
Ellicott City yoga instructor Keith Golden thinks of Reality Leigh Winner as a dedicated student who works hard and a compassionate person who cares deeply for animals and people.
On Tuesday, Golden opened a text from a friend telling him to look up Winner online. He learned that his 25-year-old former student had been charged with giving reporters a top-secret National Security Agency file about Russian attempts to interfere in last year's election.
Winner, an NSA contractor and Air Force veteran who was stationed recently in Maryland, is the third community professional in their 20s with ties to Maryland accused in recent years of leaking classified documents to the media.
The case, like those of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning before it, could offer a glimpse at what some analysts say is an emerging problem for the intelligence community: young workers who are granted security clearances, discover classified information they find objectionable, and take their concerns to the public.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-reality-winner-leak-20170606-story.html
Only four month in and I am so sick of this shit already...
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)And was she named after a race horse?
rocktivity
John1956PA
(2,656 posts)She apparently possesses that rare gift of learning, absorbing, and fluently communicating in multiple languages, some of which are obscure and possibly used by actors with evil intentions.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)be a public employee as well?
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orangecrush
(19,617 posts)In the federal gvt. to do all the work that has to be done.
I worked as a contractor for the USAF and Army Signal Corps.
She had a much higher clearance than I had.
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)might turn out to be the biggest thorn in REALITY LOSER's side?
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I mean, sure, the surname I guess you have to inherit, but if your parents already know that they've got a "snap my ass with a towel in P.E." last name, why give your child a first name that practically guarantees abuse??
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)It is a beautiful name.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)The same frequency.
Aummmmmmmm.....
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)And I am praying she doesn't get the Manning treatment.
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)far greater patriots than Trump and the GOP!
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Winner didn't run into Putins arms.
She exposed his plot.