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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.
Is that her name?
(Beside which, the NSA has really bad security.)
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When she gets out, she'll still be younger than I am right now, and then she'll get a cush job as an MSNBC consultant during Trump's second term.
I kind of suspect I accidentally died and went to purgatory or hell as the names of people are kind of silly here -- "Reality Winner", "Clinton HaHa Dix", etc -- also having Trump as president is a good touch I guess - I must say, you all suck!
I wonder when reality finally hit Reality. To me it was implied that she would Win.
Hopefully, she'll be out in 3 years... A true national heroine, alerting the media of foreign meddling in US elections.
Here's also hoping for a pardon for her from the "Orange Orangutan's" successor.
Also, let me say that the US "justice" system, which railroads people into a plea bargain to avoid an excessive prison sentence, fucking stinks. Hope the next recession will be harsh, painful, and lead to various jurisdictions in the US becoming bankrupt enough to make sentencing reform a necessity, not an option.
I'm going to try to be the first in line for a conjugal visit -- just once though as I don't want to get back in line!
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They go on and on about how Russia did it. This brave, heroic young woman gave us the goods about real potential election tampering. But the zombie-like #resist movement doesn't care. They never speak of her. They never support her. Why? Because they worship Donald Trump's intelligence agencies.
Wow, that's a horrible name.
Reality Winner
Really?
Looks like she just won some FPMITAP time.
It's a damn shame every time a hot girl gets sent to prison.
She needed the Maximum possible sentence.
I hear they have the same problem.
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My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Jail her. Jail her now.
So you can't just send classified stuff to the media without consequence. Amazing.
Despite all his ranting about the "deep state" intelligence agencies conspiring against him, will Trump pardon someone who dared to stand up to the NSA? Hahahaha, of course not, he has to save those pardons for his thugs, his family and himself.
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She ought to change her name to something less gimmicky than "Reality Winner". Maybe something like "Womp Womp" to reflect her new life status now.
I'm still pissed at The Intercept. Their incompetence in handling the original documents is what blew their source. No one is going to leak to them now if they just turn around and give all the incriminating evidence to the government. They really should have known better.
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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.)
I'm ambivalent about this.
On the one hand, leaking classified info should be punished. I agree, and that part is fine.
Also, her intent wasn't "civic duty", it was apparently hatred of the president.
On the other hand, James Comey did *exactly* the same thing as Reality Winner, for *exactly* the same reasons, and hasn't been charged and got a book deal out of it. (Comey admitted to doing the leaking under oath. No need to cite here, it was in all the news and google is your friend.)
It's one of those "don't agree, but defend your right to do it" things. The law is nothing if it's based on social class. Either Comey should be charged, or Reality Winner should go free.
I don't think it's likely, but President Trump *should* pardon Reality Winner. Whistleblowers serve an important check on the workings of government, and should be encouraged within reason.
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I haven't been following this story. What exactly did she leak and why was it classified? Did the leak reveal NSA methods and capabilities? Aside from this, what harm would revealing Russian espionage efforts to the public? It makes them look like the shit that they are and gives people and organizations a heads-up about possible threats.
Have gnu, will travel.
What she really deserves prison for is not changing her name.
She clearly took her name far too seriously, Nominative Determinism is not a get out of jail card.
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Seem Slashdot isn't trying to keep out Trump trolls.
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But unfortunately for POOOOOR SNOWFLAKE TRAINFAG here there's NOTHING the cunt traitor can do! TRUMP WILL DIE IN FEDERAL PRISON ANYWAY! Ahahahahaaaa, WHAT A FAGGOT YOU ARE TRAINHOE LOL
I thought it was about a reality tv show at first. It took me a while to figure out her name was "Reality Winner"
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It's sad since this was all pointless. Anyone with half a brain already knew this, it had even been semi official at that point.
And since then it's become official.
There was ZERO need for her particular leak. She thought it would be earth shattering, next snowden, and all it was was a meh.
She destroyed her career over nothing.
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She was never hired by the NSA. She got her security clearance via the Air Force (as a translator.) She leaked NSA documents because everything is contracted out. In this case, her employer when she got the documents was Pluribus International Corporation.
Also, if she was named that by her parents, you shouldn't blame her. Like 20% of people hate their names, but consider it too hard to change.
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you get civic jobs for selling out. And she didn't score any political points. Nobody who was ever going to vote Trump cared or ever will care about Russian meddling. Donald Trump's performance at Helsinki didn't budge his poll numbers. His tax cut, 83% of which went to 1% of Americans didn't budge his polls. Keeping us in Afghanistan when he promised to leave didn't budge his polls. Supporting DACA (of all things) didn't budge his polls). He praised Chinese President Xi for making himself El Presidente for life and still no drop in the polls. Heck, he said we should take people guns away at one point and nothing, no drop in polls. Can you imagine if Obama had done _any_ of that?
His supporters just plain don't care. There's been several interviews with them were they're presented with two quotes from him that contradict and they'll tell you both quotes are true. He has a cult of personality. If he was a bit more on the ball and a bit more violent we'd be on the way to fascism.
Sorry, I know it's not popular to call out one political party in such exacting terms. We're supposed to say "both sides are bad". But at a certain point it's time to acknowledge that one side is worse. At least the Dems have a wing of their party ("Justice Democrats") who refuse corporate & PAC money... Jeez.
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If Trump were smart, he'd pardon her, possibly at the same time as he does Manafort. Would help his PR a lot. She's harmless and not particularly bright. The PR would help cover the shitstorm of Trump pardoning Manafort.
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And boys don't even think about it... She'll crush you.
U.S. imprisons Reality for revealing unwanted facts.
Wasn't this the argument of the "anyone but Hillary" vote?
Comey released "sensitive and perhaps privileged" information, but in fact IT WAS NOT CLASSIFIED. You're a lying faggot Okie, sorry! Your bullshit doesn't matter and frankly you should hang next to the Drumpf traitors also.
I hope your mother raised her other sons as males, you're obviously an ass-slinging hoebag with no concept or regard for the truth, lol. Who knew Oklahomo had so many feckless traitor cunts in it? Pray to God for a 'nado.
There's nothing left.
They're afraid of Pence, but everyone else wants to impeach Trump. We need to keep working on the Democrats. Pence will be awful, but not as stupid. It'll be a whole different type of national embarrassment. We need that.
With that stupid name.
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Apt name. She just won a shit-ton of reality.
Also note, Miss Winner was not legitimately convicted of anything by a jury of her peers. Instead she was coerced into making a false confession ("plea bargain") by a contemptible kangaroo court.
All convictions where the accused is railroaded into "confessing" are inherently illegitimate. That's some straight up Stalin bullshit that ought have no place in America.
willaien: "They really burned their source on this one. Admittedly, she should have copied it manually, but still. Any journalist should know better than to directly photograph and post such a document. Never, ever give anything sensitive to the Intercept after this Fiasco."
Consider what was 'leaked', russia hacked voting machines, I suspect the whole thing as a put-up job. Maybe that was the whole point of the excercise, to disuade any legitimage whistleblowers from coming forward. We decoded the yellow-dots being a load of cyber-bullshit.
I feel she will be fine, and I am fairly certain she will have to do the whole stretch.
But on the other hand, she did not lie once she was caught
She did expose the attacks against our country.
I am curios about these haters and what attacks against
the United States by the Russians they do not want the public to know about.
Why they are fine with the gross over-classification of subjects that was begun
in the Gulf War years and continues unabated.
How are the American people to decided what to do and who to support
if they are given false BS and have the truth about really important things
like attacks on the voting system by foreign governments and spying and data breaches
hidden behind flimsy face-saving security classifications? They can't.
We shouldn't have to rely on people willing to risk their careers, reputations, freedoms
just to know what is really going in our our own lives. But we do.
She took the risk, she pays the price, she did what what was right in her mind,
and she is owning it.
I don't think "...a substantial fraction of the uranium in the US..." means what you think it means.
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She deserved life with hard labour for her stupid name.
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