Alleged NSA Leaker May Have Had Plans to Release More Classified Information
Source: NBC News
AUGUSTA, Georgia The intelligence industry contractor accused of giving journalists a top-secret report about Russian interference in the U.S. election pleaded not guilty in court Thursday as federal prosecutors suggested that she may have had plans to leak more classified information.
Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old government contractor who was working with the National Security Agency, pleaded not guilty to one count of "willful retention and transmission of national defense information during a detention hearing in Augusta, Georgia, Thursday afternoon.
Winner was denied bail Thursday afternoon pending trial. She said nothing as she was led away in shackles in an orange jumpsuit.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari said in court that Winner admitted she had leaked the top secret document "to a particular news agency she admired" and said "she was underwhelmed with what Wikileaks had to offer."
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)To release it to more worthy people
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)She's very silly for providing a negative report on Russia to a Russian intelligence asset.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Sad, but probably true
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Electron1
(5 posts)What I find interesting is the amount of non-military info that is being "Classified" for no other reason than to keep United States Citizens from being informed. Can an attorney explain to us what gives our government the authority to classify non-military info?
atreides1
(16,093 posts)National Security!
At least that's what the government will always claim, especially when releasing such information embarrasses the government!
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)labeled as classified. This has been identified as a problem many times by the federal gov't itself. What Ms Winner released exposed no sources or methods and seemed actually quite bland, but, of course contained useful information that Americans should have known.
If I to take a guess, I'd guess probably only about 10% of the info carrying a classified lable (from confidential to top secret) actually is stuff that should be and/or needs to be classified.
melm00se
(4,994 posts)provides a breakdown.
Section 1.4
It makes very interesting reading
bluestarone
(17,026 posts)A way to get our government to show cause when they decide to classify material one way or another! (GOOD LUCK ON THAT RIGHT?)