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https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/381248-accused-leaker-reality-winner-wants-to-subpoena-homeland-security-states%3famp

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I’m all for holding leakers accountable but the fact that this girl is still sitting in a Georgia jail awaiting trial for attempting to inform the American people on the severity of Russia’s attack on America while Michael Flynn walks free and Paul Manafort sits at home with an ankle bracelet is pretty disgusting.

Her trial isn’t until October.

Let’s hope she gets a fair trial.

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https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/381248-accused-leaker-reality-winner-wants-to-subpoena-homeland-security-states%3famp

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I’m all for holding leakers accountable but the fact that this girl is still sitting in a Georgia jail awaiting trial for attempting to inform the American people on the severity of Russia’s attack on America while Hillary keeps falling down, Michael Flynn walks free and Paul Manafort sits at home with an ankle bracelet is pretty disgusting.

Her trial isn’t until October.

Let’s hope she gets a fair trial.

 

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2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/381248-accused-leaker-reality-winner-wants-to-subpoena-homeland-security-states%3famp

4160104800000578-0-image-a-64_1497314874

I’m all for holding leakers accountable but the fact that this girl is still sitting in a Georgia jail awaiting trial for attempting to inform the American people on the severity of Russia’s attack on America while Michael Flynn walks free and Paul Manafort sits at home with an ankle bracelet is pretty disgusting.

Her trial isn’t until October.

Let’s hope she gets a fair trial.

The fact that she is being charged with violating the Espionage Act is unfair. I don't expect the government to suddenly shift gears once the trial starts.

 

"The Espionage Act is a fundamentally unfair and unconstitutional law. As the ACLU argued in an amicus brief in the Chelsea Manning appeal, and has argued with reference to Edward Snowden, this act is unconstitutionally vague because it allows the government to prosecute leakers and whistleblowers that it dislikes, while leaving untouched the many leakers within the security state who release classified materials to advance those agencies’ bureaucratic aims. Perhaps worse, it doesn’t allow leakers to defend their leaks by trying to demonstrate in court that they served the public interest."

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/secrecy/reality-winner-latest-face-prosecution-under-awful-world-war-i

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Sentenced to 63 months.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/reality-winner-sentence-classified-report-leak

Assuming she serves the whole amount, she will be 31 and a considered a National Hero by some when she gets out.

What she did was wrong and shouldn’t be treated lightly but she’s accepting the consequences and paying the price.

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Justice Dept Press Release

Federal Government Contractor Sentenced for Removing and Transmitting Classified Materials to a News Outlet

Reality Winner, 26, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for removing classified national defense material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet.  Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home in Augusta, on June 3, 2017.  The parties filed a plea agreement on June 21, in which Winner agreed to plead guilty to the one-count indictment charging her with unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information.  The parties agreed that a sentence of imprisonment for 63 months followed by a three-year term of supervised release is the appropriate disposition of the case.  The Court accepted the plea agreement at sentencing.

The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine for the Southern District of Georgia, and Acting Special Agent in Charge J.C. Hacker of the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office.  U.S. District Court Chief Judge J. Randal Hall presided over the hearing.

“The defendant schemed to take and disclose classified information she had sworn to protect – and then did so almost as soon as she had the chance,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers.  “Today, she has been held accountable for her crime thanks to the hard work of the Department’s prosecutors and agents.  I hope their success will deter others from similar unlawful action in the future.”

“This defendant used her position of trust to steal and divulge closely guarded intelligence information,” said U.S. Attorney Christine.  “Her betrayal of the United States put at risk sources and methods of intelligence gathering, thereby offering advantage to our adversaries. This U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to work with the National Security Division, law enforcement and our intelligence partners to ensure such violations result in swift, certain prosecution.”

“When obtaining Top Secret clearance as a government employee or contractor, the handling of top secret information is clearly spelled out along with the ramifications of mishandling such information,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Hacker.  “Revealing sources and methods to the advantage of our adversaries and to the detriment of our country will never be acceptable and the FBI and Department of Justice will spare no effort to prosecute and punish anyone who would do so.” 

Winner was a contractor assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia. She had been employed at the facility since on or about Feb. 13, 2017, and held a TOP SECRET//Sensitive Compartmented (SCI) clearance during that time.  Prior to that position, Winner had served in the U.S. Air Force from 2010-2016 and held a TOP SECRET//SCI security clearance.

Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing established that on or about May 9, 2017, Winner printed an intelligence report that was classified at the TOP SECRET//SCI level, and she removed it from the facility where she worked.  Information may be classified as TOP SECRET if its unauthorized disclosure can reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.  Later on May 9, Winner unlawfully transmitted a hard copy of the intelligence report to an online news outlet. The intelligence report revealed the sources and methods used to acquire the information contained in the report, which, if disclosed, would be harmful to the United States and valuable to our adversaries. 

Indeed, Winner, in an interview with the FBI on June 3, 2017, admitted knowing at the time she stole and transmitted the intelligence report that it contained information about intelligence sources and methods, which information she knew was valuable to adversaries of the United States.  Further, the information contained in the intelligence report had not been released to the public at the time Winner retained it and transmitted it to the online news outlet.  Winner, who had received training regarding the proper handling, marking, transportation, and storage of classified information, knew that she was not permitted to remove the intelligence report from the facility where she worked, retain it, or transmit it to the news outlet.

The investigation of this case was conducted by the FBI. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari of the Southern District of Georgia, and Deputy Chief Julie A. Edelstein and Trial Attorneys David C. Aaron and Amy Larson of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

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9 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

This is a good interview with CIA whistle blower John Kiriakou regarding Reality Winner.

 

Fascinating, thanks for sharing.

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Just watched the HBO special which uses the fbi interview when they first arrested her verbatim. 
 

I came away with the impression that she did what she did because she was inundated with Fox News every day at work and knew they were lying about everything and she just got fed up with it. 
 

Doesn’t make what she did right, but I can see how you would snap if you weren’t taken in by their bullshit. 

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There is more than a touch of irony in this whole situation given the Mar A Lago case.  I'm sure Sessions told the DOJ National Security Division to nail her ass to the wall, but federal prosecutors don't need much prompting in that direction.  One of the main government lawyers, Julie Edelstein, is common to both cases.

One important fact to remember, though, is her sentence is the longest ever for violation of 18 USC 793 at a touch over five years, and it included transmitting the classified information to a foreign entity, which kicks the penalty range up substantially.

Govern your expectations accordingly.

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