Reality Winner, Accused National Security Agency Leaker, To Change Her Not Guilty Plea
Source: Huffington Post
Reality Winner, the former government contractor who allegedly leaked a classified document that proved Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors that will resolve her pending Espionage Act charge, though the details of the plea deal are unclear.
Federal court records show that Winner, who previously pleaded not guilty and has remained locked up ahead of her trial, is scheduled to appear at a change of plea hearing on Tuesday, a clear sign shes reached a plea deal with Justice Department prosecutors.
Winner, 26, was a federal contractor with Pluribus International Corp. in Augusta, Georgia, when she was arrested last June on charges of violating the Espionage Act by removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, a criminal complaint said at the time.
She is charged with one federal count of willful retention and transmission of national defense information and faces up to 10 years in prison. Her attorneys were not immediately available for comment.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reality-winner-accused-nsa-leaker-to-change-plea_us_5b2c208fe4b0040e27412ec6
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)This is what she did:
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
THIS is what makes America great! Citizens who say "Enough is enough!"
And are willing to face the consequences!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)were pissing on her revelations on the Intercepted podcast the day they ran since it didn't jibe with their "KremlinGate doesn't exist" narrative...
They have to be the FIRST journalists ever to kneecap colleagues at their own fucking publication(!)
So she leaked to the Intercept just to prove Glenn wrong about Kremlingate, and instantly gets arrested because the Intercept didn't properly protect her identity... I truly want to believe these two incidents are connected but I can't prove it yet...
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)When our government (officials/candidates) are committing treason, they need to be exposed.
I thought it was our duty to report crimes.
If Trump wasn't covering up the Russian help, and reporting Russian activities like they ARE REQUIRED TO DO BY LAW, Reality would not have had to do her duty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
It's Trump that is guilty. Not Reality.
God Save America.
The sooner Trump is locked up the better.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)karin_sj
(810 posts)It kills me that she will be charged to the maximum extent of the law and the people who actually encouraged and enabled Russia to hack our election not only go unpunished, but are living lives of luxury and are still running around in the highest levels of our government, wreaking havoc, chaos and pain on all of us, especially the most vulnerable ones. And, unbelievably, nothing is being done to try and prevent Russia from doing this to us again this November.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)was willing to break the law and the feds are basically saying that we the public did not have a "need to know"..............that a foreign power hacked the system.............
"The National Security Agency memo, which Winner sent to The Intercept, detailed a Russian cyberattack on a U.S. voting software supplier prior to the election. The memo also said Russian intelligence services had gained access to multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards, though the memo showed no evidence that the cyberattacks directly altered any votes."
I think we need "paper ballots"................why is our election being sold to corporations to make a buck off it, and there programs aren't worth a shit..............
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)At the very least, all voting machines should be taken offline and air-gapped. By that I mean they should each be a stand-alone machine not connected to any network or system. The vote reporting at the end of the election-day should sent by encrypted emails to a national data center, and all emailed documents need to be archived for "x" number of years. If all states complied it would be a huge step towards controlling outside interference.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)That's what's most galling to me about this whole thing. We're really supposed to believe that the Russians were hacking our election systems for the lulz?
still_one
(92,219 posts)from what I have read actually ended up exposing her directly or indirectly
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I don't trust that dude any farther than I can throw him.
still_one
(92,219 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)to the Pulitzer committee that Glennbo get his 2014 prize revoked...
Probably won't do anything, but at least it's out there...
byronius
(7,395 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)that's fine if you are willing to face the consequences, but know what you should redact first.