The Intercept checked with NSA who quickly figured out she was one of five people who could have printed this out and was the only one who had emailed The Intercept. She was picked up on Saturday and charged yesterday.

Great name Reality Winner

or if it's her birth name? Cool either way.

the situation as well as it should have:

"It’s what happened about two weeks later that places the Intercept’s handling of the case in sharp relief. Here’s part of a paragraph from the document:

On or about May 24, 2017, a reporter for the News Outlet (the “Reporter”) contacted another U.S. Government Agency affiliate with whom he has a prior relationship. This individual works for a contractor for the U.S. Government (the “Contractor”). The Reporter contacted the Contractor via text message and asked him to review certain documents. The Reporter told the Contractor that the Reporter had received the documents through the mail, and they were postmarked “Augusta. Georgia.” WINNER resides in Augusta, Georgia. The Reporter believed that the documents were sent to him from someone working at the location where WINNER works. The Reporter took pictures of the documents and sent them to the Contractor. The Reporter asked the Contractor to determine the veracity of the documents. The Contractor informed the Reporter that he thought that the documents were fake. Nonetheless, the Contractor contacted the U.S. Government Agency on or about June 1, 2017, to inform the U.S. Government Agency of his interaction with the Reporter. Also on June 1, 2017, the Reporter texted the Contractor and said that a U.S Government Agency official had verified that the document was real.

Journalistic tradecraft has a way of appearing ham-fisted, awkward and ill-advised when it surfaces in hacked emails, hot mics and federal court documents. It’s ever so easy to look back at a reporter’s decisions and mock them. With that luxury, we can question the wisdom of telling the contractor about the Augusta postmark, not to mention sending the documents to the contractor. Did the contractor then feel implicated and thus obligated to report this incident?"


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/06/06/did-the-intercept-bungle-nsa-leak/?utm_term=.12f5c3261ace

But the point of my post was how the Intercept itself failed at protecting their source. Journalism 101, F-. Going way beyond not handling the situation as well as it should have. They burned their source!

sounds amateurish & The intercept also dropped the ball to an extent.. I do find it interesting that the manner in which she was caught was divulged - why would they put that out there?? There is always an angle and and agenda..

I'm thinking this feels very intrusive. So, is everything I print traceable? That's sorta creeping me out and seems unConstitutional. Why don't printers come with a caution label to warn users? Now, how can this 'feature' be disabled to protect my rights to privacy?

The Constitution is a framework of rights to prevent those government intrusions, not defend them.

Given his publication's less than aggressive stance on Russia. Perhaps the ultimate goal was to make sure Russia had the intel. Either way I'm glad it's out there.

Remember how we used to mock the Soviet Union because copy machines and typewriters there were licensed and tracked? (The KGB could thus trace documents back to their original source, often to the person who typed or copied them.)

We've become what we once despised.

For anyone here leaking or receiving leaked documents, electronic or printed electronically, protecting yourself and your source is not a trivial problem.

"AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION FOR ARREST WARRANT"

Which can be found here:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/971331/download

If they knew precisely when it was printed they wouldn't have had to search the computers of all 6 people who
printed it:

A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had
e-mail contact with the News Outlet.

The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with
the News Outlet.