The first government employee prosecuted by the Trump administration for the leaking of classified information has just learned her fate: she’ll serve 63 months in prison after pleading guilty to leaking classified information related to Russian hacking attempts during the 2016 election.
Reality Winner, a former Air Force linguist, was a contractor with the National Security Agency in Augusta, Georgia when she leaked a classified report to a journalist for The Intercept as part of her attempt to expose alleged Russian election meddling and “set the facts straight.” She was arrested in June after The Intercept reporter carelessly exposed her by providing a photocopy of the original document to the FBI, which contained clues leading back to Winner.
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