A US government contractor has been arrested on suspicion of leaking top-secret information to a news outlet.
Reality Leigh Winner, 25, allegedly removed classified material from a federal site in the state of Georgia.
The charges were announced shortly after news website The Intercept published a National Security Agency briefing about alleged Russian meddling in last year's election.
The Trump administration has been seeking to fight leaks to the media.
Ms Winner was arrested on 3 June, the justice department said.

She is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation and had been employed at an NSA facility in Georgia since February, reports NBC News.
The accused faces a count of "gathering, transmitting or losing defence information", according to the network.


Ms Winner, who graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio in 2011, was caught after investigators noticed that the leaked document appeared to have been folded or creased.
That suggested it had been "printed and then carried out of a secured space", according to an FBI affidavit in support of the arrest warrant.
Investigators then determined that Ms Winner was one of only six people to have printed the document. Examination of her email on her desk computer further revealed that she had exchanged emails with the news outlet, the indictment said.
When confronted, Ms Winner admitted printing the report despite not possessing a "need-to-know" about its content and said she was aware that the information "could be used to the injury of the US and to the advantage of a foreign nation", the affidavit says.

The Intercept's leaked document alleges that Moscow's military intelligence services attempted cyber-attacks on at least one US voting software supplier days before last November's US presidential election.
It also accuses them of sending spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials.
However, there is no suggestion in the document that the hackers were successful.
The NSA file in question was apparently marked for declassification not before May 2042.

Film at 11.... 🤔

2042??? Release date....WGAF

Ohhhh

Yea....

The NSA is sure hiring some REAL

"W.I.N.N.E.R.S." ( BWUHAHAHAHAHA !!)

NOWADAYS...

I BET SHE WAS VETTED BY

"ANDRE THE GIANT" <<< the biggest SPY IN N.S.A. AND U.S. HISTORY THAT :

"I and I ALONE OUTED TO THE NSA"

but never got any credit for it...

And they never released it to any news agency.

I wonder...did He just "DISAPPEAR"? Have an auto vs.
Semi-tractor TRAILER accident on the beltway around D.C.?, or just a non-traceable drug induced heart attack?

I heard he was banned... 😟

I think she will have plenty of time to consider the crime she alegedly committed if convicted.

I wish they would march her to the gallows... not saying they have to go all the way through with it... at least get her up there, get the hood on her head, let her hear the monotone of the executioners drum roll... basically, scare her almost to death and then throw her in a dark cell until she's so mentally f*cked she decides to change her gender...

I don't think that her actions necessitate that harsh of a response, but the prevention of like actions by similarly enabled individuals makes it important... it's better that one man die and the country be saved than that one man be spared and the country cast into turmoil...

is that missashlie?

Rosie O'Donnell defended a woman charged with leaking U.S. government secrets, calling 25-year-old Reality Winner a "brave, young patriot."

O'Donnell tweeted Thursday, "i support reality winner speak truth to power #resist #womenUNITE" and added a link to a GoFundMe page to raise money for Winner.

She also defended Winner after a Twitter user said the 25-year-old got herself into trouble by being "careless."

"Brave not careless," O'Donnell responded.

She also confirmed on Twitter that she donated $1,000 to Winner.


Film at 11... 😂

is she in canada yet?

I dunno... Question is now will Comey be sitting next to this chick in the pokey..?? 😕

Rosie O'DONNEL
IS ONE OF THE
B.I.G.G.E.S.T.
GOT AIR
DOUCHE BAGS
ON
PLANET EARTH.... 🌎

BAR NONE

#andtrumpagreeeswithme

GOT air = HOT AIR

They've looked into her a bit more and based on what they've seen / read that she's posted in various places....=
No Bail for this Bimbo 🍺

🤔
Tony hasn't posted in a few days... 🤔

She's gonna get jail time...that's Reality...think Trump will pardon her, or ask for a lenient sentence?

What she revealed is also some bad crap... that's some serious data: Russians trying to hack voting software and manipulate election official's computers...wonder if our intel people were ever gonna let the American people know, and what they are doing to stop cyber-attacks on our elections...

Lynch told Comey to call the attacks 'inquiries'.. 😟

either way ...

Winner lived and was arrested just across the river in Augusta, GA. Bail denied, another Winner in the Federal Prison system, where she belongs.

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I wonder if she's been water-boarded yet... 😟

^^Her last recorded statement sounded
A bit garbled...gurgily...in fact.