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Reality Winner indicted for transmitting national defense information
Source: Associated Press
Reality Winner indicted for transmitting national defense information
Associated Press in Augusta, Georgia
Thursday 8 June 2017 16.28 BST
A woman accused of leaking US government secrets to a reporter was indicted by a federal grand jury as she awaited a court hearing Thursday to determine whether she must remain jailed pending a trial.
Prosecutors plan to ask a judge to deny bond for 25-year-old Reality Winner, according to court records filed in the case. A grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday in US district court charging her with a single count of illegally retaining and transmitting national defense information.
Federal authorities used the same charge to arrest Winner, a government contractor and former air force linguist, after FBI agents interviewed her and searched her Augusta home Saturday. FBI agent Justin Garrick said in an affidavit that Winner admitted she copied a classified report containing top-secret information and mailed it to an online news organization.
The charge Winner faces carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Associated Press in Augusta, Georgia
Thursday 8 June 2017 16.28 BST
A woman accused of leaking US government secrets to a reporter was indicted by a federal grand jury as she awaited a court hearing Thursday to determine whether she must remain jailed pending a trial.
Prosecutors plan to ask a judge to deny bond for 25-year-old Reality Winner, according to court records filed in the case. A grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday in US district court charging her with a single count of illegally retaining and transmitting national defense information.
Federal authorities used the same charge to arrest Winner, a government contractor and former air force linguist, after FBI agents interviewed her and searched her Augusta home Saturday. FBI agent Justin Garrick said in an affidavit that Winner admitted she copied a classified report containing top-secret information and mailed it to an online news organization.
The charge Winner faces carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/reality-winner-charged-illegally-transmitting-national-defense-information
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