After pleading guilty in June to leaking classified information that she hoped would “set the record straight” on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner was sentenced Thursday to just over five years in prison.
Winner, who openly expressed disdain for “orange fascist” President Trump, is the first government employee prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking classified information. The former Air Force linguist told a judge in June that she leaked a classified report on a Russian military intelligence cyberattack “willfully” while working as a contractor for the NSA in Augusta, Georgia in 2017.
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