Prosecutors: Contractor wanted to 'burn the White House down'

[Blue_Tires]

Source: WSB-TV 2, Atlanta

RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. - An Augusta woman charged with leaking classified information was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count, but prosecutors said they are likely to add more.

A federal magistrate judge held a detention hearing for Reality Winner Thursday afternoon. The 25-year-old worked as a contractor for the government and is accused of giving classified information from the National Security Agency to an online news outlet. She entered a not-guilty plea. The judge denied bond...

...Prosecutors said a phone call to her sister expressed Winner’s confidence in how to play the court during her bond hearing.

“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.

Read more: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/prosecutors-alleged-nsa-leaker-wanted-to-burn-the-white-house-down/531327849

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Somewhere in Moscow, Snowden must be thinking to himself "Even my MY standards, that girl is a fucking brain-dead idiot!"

[John1956PA]

1. I don't know about her mental state, but part of me is glad she leaked the NSA document.

The other part of me is worried that, by leaking the document, she may have compromised U.S. intelligence resources.

As for the plus side of the leak, it prompted The Miami Herald to conduct an investigation which corroborated the existence of the specific Russian malware hijacking attempt which is described in the leaked NSA document. The newspaper learned that the election offices in at least five Florida counties received spoof emails from Russia attempting gain access to the election offices' computers.

[cstanleytech]

5. I don't doubt that the Russians were not trying to hack

into the computers that take and tabulate the votes but the question is did they actually succeed and if they did how many did they manipulate.

[moonscape]

6. I'm also divided on the leak, not knowing what was compromised. Malcolm Nance

came down hard against the leak. If true, the fact she grabbed lots of classified info onto a thumb drive that is missing is worrying.

This part seems rather out there - just from looking at her Facebook am skeptical without more information: "Based on evidence seized from her home, federal prosecutors detailed Winner's alleged plans to burn down the White House and travel to Afghanistan, pledging her allegiance to the Taliban."

[jehop61]

2. And there you have it

The disinformation folks at work smearing a person who hasn't been convicted. Thanks so much for sharing the administration's slimming of this person.

[QC]

3. +1

[deurbano]

7. + 1000

"Espionage" in this case would not seem to be against the United States.

[geek tragedy]

4. Reality Winner: I want to burn the White House down

Donald Tr*mp: Hold my beer

[Sunlei]

8. "literally" IMO this 25 year old, is a new type of activist. They'll have great jobs & use

their position to take action against this crazy Admin. She had to have known copying a classified file is a crime, yet did it anyway to 'prove' Russians were fucking with our election.

At this point, IMO she's a type of "whistle blower" a product of todays crazy social media-unless there's more to her story like bribes.