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Reality Winner Sentenced To More Than 5 Years For Leaking Info About Russia Hacking Attempts (nbcnews.com)
A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking U.S. secrets about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison. From a report: It was the sentence that prosecutors had recommended in the plea deal -- the longest sentence ever given for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media -- for Reality Winner, the Georgia woman at the center of the case. Winner was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and no fine, except for a $100 special assessment fee. The crime carried a maximum penalty of 10 years. U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, Georgia, was not bound to follow the plea deal, but elected to give Winner the amount of time prosecutors requested. Winner, 26, who contracted for the National Security Agency, pleaded guilty in June to copying a classified report that detailed the Russian government's efforts to penetrate a Florida-based voting software supplier. Further reading: How a Few Yellow Dots Burned the Intercept's NSA Leaker.
1. that name is provably incorrect, if offends me
2. who hires somebody with a whackjob name like that? they might be a wackjob. Let alone the N S A.
3. this is the kind of thing that leads me more and more to the conclusion that the scriptwriter for this show is a hack of the lowest caliber, doesn't even care any more and is probably a habitual drunkard.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Here's hoping -- she's a national treasure and deserves a good, cushy job after being railroaded for doing her civic duty and reporting election fraud to the media.
No, you don't get to misuse classified information just to score political points.
(Well, unless you are already a major Democrat politician.)
>the NSA has really bad security.
Bad? For a sting operation it worked OK, even though it snagged a very low level leaker. But they're making an example of her, so maybe this will give pause to any other Obama holdovers willing to compromise national security just because they didn't like the election results.
Agreed, there has been a lot of talk, but fuck all actual evidence. Fake news apparently only applies when it does not suit main stream media.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
Keep screaming Dem keep screaming. Music to our ears. Two terms and your world wonâ(TM)t be around anymore.
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