First leak being prosecuted

[Avatar4321]

Reports that the DOJ filed charges against Reality Winner. Yes that's her name

 

[Luddly Neddite]

There's already a thread on this.

Why put this in Politics?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Reality Loser would be more fitting

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

Welcome to the real world, Reality!

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Reports that the DOJ filed charges against Reality Winner. Yes that's her name

Man that kid wasn't indoctrinated by a couple hippy commies with a name like that. No sir.

 

[whitehall]

Pretty 25 year old. Too bad she let her emotions overrule her common sense and the oath she took. If she doesn't get too much time she will probably end up as an anchor on CNN.

 

[RightyTighty]

Reports that the DOJ filed charges against Reality Winner. Yes that's her name

The Russians are attempting to hack our voting systems? Inconceivable (or not).

Beat ya to it!

 

[RightyTighty]

Pretty 25 year old. Too bad she let her emotions overrule her common sense and the oath she took. If she doesn't get too much time she will probably end up as an anchor on CNN.

Jury nullification - an act of patriotism.

 

[blackhawk]

One down.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...Y9XuPcPPILcjEL4Rg&sig2=9ntcLvAQoCTxJMeVOQKfhg

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Somebody get a rope.

 

[william the wie]

With plea deals this may clean up relatively fast.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Pretty 25 year old. Too bad she let her emotions overrule her common sense and the oath she took. If she doesn't get too much time she will probably end up as an anchor on CNN.

No way some cis woman gets on CNN before the tranny Manning! Are you crazy!?

 

[Marion Morrison]

There's one.

How was someone so low-level able to get hold of classified documents? is the next question.

 

[RightyTighty]

Somebody get a rope.

Time to get used to - From Russia with Love. This flood is but a gentle summer rain so far.

 

[RightyTighty]

There's one.

How was someone so low-level able to get hold of classified documents? is the next question.

Who do you think has to write this stuff up?

 

[Marion Morrison]

There's one.

How was someone so low-level able to get hold of classified documents? is the next question.

Who do you think has to write this stuff up?

I'm thinking it should be a secretary in Washington, or are those just trophy secretaries?

 

[Divine Wind]

Welcome to the real world, Reality!

Agreed. She's cute, so she won't have a problem getting a girlfriend in prison.

Reality Leigh Winner: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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 The Intercept, NBC News reported, though the organization was not named in the federal court documents.

1. Winner Is a Former Member of the Military & Has Posted Anti-Trump Things on Social Media

(Instagram)

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

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.

Notably, Winner didn’t shy away from giving her take on politics. Just one day before the 2016 presidential election, she made a post to Facebook saying “on a positive note, This Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport.”

(Twitter)

(Twitter)

Her mother told The Daily Beast that Reality is “very passionate about her views.” She said that she’s “never to my knowledge been active in politics or any of that.

Prior to working for Pluribus, Winner was an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force. She was in the Air Force as a linguist, and speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari, her mother Billie Winner-Davis told The Guardian’s Jon Swaine.

2. A Search Warrant Said the F.B.I. Was Tipped off by a Podcast

(Instagram)

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, the same day of The Intercept’s report.

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 GMail 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, 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, the criminal complaint said.

Read the full 21-page search warrant request below:

Reality Leigh Winner by Chris on Scribd

The search warrant was eventually granted, and authorities targeted her home and her vehicle, where they suspected that evidence of the alleged crime was.

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

(Instagram)

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 with the news outlet.

Read the full 6-page criminal complaint in the document below:


Reality Leigh Winner by Chris on Scribd

Authorities arrested her June 3 at her home, and she was subsequently interviewed by investigators. Winner admitted to removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office in Georgia, copying it and mailing it to the news outlet. She allegedly told agents that she knew that she wasn’t allowed to share the intelligence reporting that she obtained, and she was aware that using the information for a news report could cause damage to the U.S. by a foreign nation.

Winner was then taken into federal custody, where she remains as she awaits trial.

4. She Faces 10 Years in a Federal Prison

(Instagram)

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

The charge, “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information” is contained under Chapter 37 of federal law: espionage and censorship. The law went into effect as of February 1, 2010.


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

(Instagram)

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.”

Her mother told The Daily Beast that she became aware of the allegations June 4 when they spoke, but she wasn’t quite aware what they were.


“I don’t know who she might have sent it to,” she told the news outlet. “(DOJ) were very vague. They said she mishandled and released documents that she shouldn’t have, but we had no idea what it pertained to or who.”

One of the main thing on her daughter’s mind when she spoke with her was the condition of her dog and cat. She reportedly asked her mom to “help out with relocating” the pets.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for American security, she is probably going to be made an example of and they will throw the book at her.

With the Snowdens and Wikileaks of the world running wild, America will be treating these serious breaches as they are: serious risks to National Security.

 

[danielpalos]

Reports that the DOJ filed charges against Reality Winner. Yes that's her name

There are no real times of war if we can lower taxes.

In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people, personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore, we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.

A lack of Real Times of War, Tax Rates, proves it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The FBI thinks it's found the person who leaked top secret intelligence about Russia

This is about something on or about May 5, 2017.

Wonder what it is about. It is not identified as anything to do with Trump, Comey, or mighty mouse.

It appears to detail Russian efforts to hack into American voting systems.

Good going, American intel.