Good on her!!

Not everyone is willing to stand idly by and watch election interference happen:

Reality Winner versus Reality Loser. Trump's Lies Revealed by Leak.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Too bad; it's very difficult to take anyone who names herself "Reality Winner" seriously.

I would guess her parents had more to do with that than she did.

But, really? You are blaming her for her name? Where did you get this information?

If she did not name herself, I stand corrected. But, since reality TV shows (named as such, anyway) weren't really a thing 25 years ago, I'm going to say the jury is out on this one.

If she didn't give herself this moniker, my bad.

I guess we'll eventually find out.

I just assumed she had amusing parents.

Although it seems that "Sara" was a pseudonym she used:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/reality-winner-who-is-accused-leaker/index.html

"Reality Winner posted under a pseudonym, Sara Winners, but didn't seem concerned with concealing her identity, as she used a photo of herself as a profile picture and posted a selfie in February."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/reality-winner-who-is-accused-leaker/index.html

"Reality Winner posted under a pseudonym, Sara Winners, but didn't seem concerned with concealing her identity, as she used a photo of herself as a profile picture and posted a selfie in February."

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/who-is-reality-winner/529266/

"On Twitter, where she was active under the name Sara Winners, she frequently criticized the Trump administration’s policies, praised Edward Snowden, and on election night tweeted: “Well. People suck.”"


CNN and The Atlantic seem to disagree with you. What is the source of your information?

I highly doubt that they'd go after her using any incorrect name...their application appears to be mighty official-looking to me.

The disinformation hovering all around this leak is growing by the hour, when just a little reading-up on the case verifies what steps the authorities have taken against this woman.

I've also seen it posted here at DU that she "stupidly emailed the NSA document using her own gmail account" when every report I read yesterday says that The Intercept received the document anonymously thru the mail, postmarked from Augusta, Georgia.
Snail Mail.


Anyone can read that affidavit at the end of this piece by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

http://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/augusta-contractor-charged-with-mishandling-top-secret-materials/VFqwwNvxTBe7w2BxkQaWNM/

So of course that's what appears on the affidavit.

Will try to find it again, but I'm not having much luck given the number of Google hits now.

Reddit had it, and all of the wing-nut-conservative-cave-type sites were abuzz about how only a mentally ill person would voluntarily choose to be called "Reality" and make it legal. That gave me a chuckle cause I was thinking being named "Sara Leigh" could be considered equally annoying, but maybe not for a woman so young (is Sara Lee even still in business?).

Living clear up here in the northwest corner of Washington, the home of many remnants of both the Love Family and the Rainbow Family, it's not odd at all to bump into younger people bearing names like "Humble", "Amity", "Patience", "Trust", "Genuine", "Truth", "Harmony", and, one which I thought was especially stigmatizing for a child, "Beautiful"...I actually attempted to dissuade the mother from bestowing such a moniker on her little newborn, but she, herself, was named "Share" so somewhere there's a thirty-something woman probably still trying to live up to her name (I lost touch with her mom years ago, but they were a nice family). And I am still acquainted with a fellow named Placid, but he chose it for himself and eventually made the change legal, long after the Love Family had disbanded.

Anyway, I expect we'll most likely be learning every thing there is to know about Ms Winner in the coming months, or else, she'll fast drop off the radar as the hearings and the numerous investigations pick up steam and her little escapade is forgotten and left behind in the dust.

But I do like her name. It's original, that's for sure!

But now there are so many hits, it's becoming impossible.

But since two other sources have said that she used the pseudonym "Sara" on social media, then you might have read something by someone who, like all the rest of us, thought "Reality Winner? No way."

I don't doubt that you may have read something to the effect that she changed her name, and perhaps the other publications have it backwards. Shit happens.

Before long, of course, we'll meet the parents, high school classmates, neighbors down the street, and so on.

But, dang, what a great name, eh?

It is a pretty great name. Lol.

I'm sure it will get sorted either way. It would be interesting to hear from the parents as to the choice of name or, if she had changed it herself, what was the thinking. Some people like to have interesting names, and some people have them inflicted upon them by "cool parents".

Hope it was worth it to her!

This is more important than people may know. By letting herself be arrested, Winner knew that she was giving herself up like Chelsea Manning, but with not just the smoking gun but a dead corpse of rock-solid evidence of Trump's treasonous crime, Reality Winner will take her place in the Progressive Hall of Fame...at least in MY book!

And violated an oath she took after Trump was elected to protect the classified information she would be given access to. That makes her a liar. In other words, she agreed to work for somebody she wanted to undermine.

Reality is foolish and untrustworthy. And that's a Winner?


She probably wanted to make a personal statement. Validate herself, make herself seem important. Felt disempowered, isolated. IN another setting, she'd blow herself up. But in the end she became a self-styled patriotic mole ... for the Russians. I assume that the Russians didn't know that anybody in the government knew about that particular incident. So congratulations are in order: Just like the NYT told them that the intelligence over the ISIS undercover agent was from an Israeli source because of people who wanted to make Trump look bad, so the NYT told them "we" knew about this. They're making the FSB and GRU superfluous. "Gospodin Putin, here next intelligence report on most recent top secret information. We expanding base of operatives in United States. This time three sources we used, New Yorksky Times, Washingtonsky Post, and The Intercept. They defend Russian public's right to know."

The irony is palpable. And yet this is the end result of the kind of polarization we've managed to produce.

That is the main point, not the details.

...and likely has been available to the Senate, as per the comments made by Mark Warner today.

Senate Dems have known this and more.

So I'm not too clear on what she has brought to the table here.

As Igel points out, there are always people with "principles". Those principles may not be yours or mine.

There is an active war going on. It's not like the Russians have "quit" doing cyber ops, and we may not want them to know the full extent of what we know at this point in time.