NSA contractor gets more than 5 years

Kyle

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A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking U.S. secrets about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison.

It was the sentence that prosecutors had recommended in the plea deal — the longest sentence ever given for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media — for Reality Winner, the Georgia woman at the center of the case. Winner was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.

The crime carried a maximum penalty of 10 years. U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, Georgia, was not bound to follow the plea deal, but elected to give Winner the amount of time prosecutors requested.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...hacking-attempts/ar-BBMl0Jg?OCID=ansmsnnews11
 
GURPS

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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.

"I had no intention to harm national security," Winner told the court Thursday, CNN reports. When she pleaded guilty in June, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, said her daughter wanted the world to know that "she does love her country, and she is a patriot."

Winner was denied bail, however, in part because of evidence that she held radical beliefs and potentially dangerous intentions. Among the evidence suggesting she was a flight risk was her "fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism" and a comment she made about wanting to "burn the White House down."

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Winner was also famously overheard boasting during a phone call from jail that she'd be able to manipulate the court because she is "pretty, white and cute" and saying she'd "instructed family members to transfer $30,000 into her mother’s account so she’d appear poor enough for a court-appointed attorney," WSB-TV reported.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/35215/nsa-leaker-who-called-trump-orange-fascist-james-barrett
 
Merlin99

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GURPS said:
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.

"I had no intention to harm national security," Winner told the court Thursday, CNN reports. When she pleaded guilty in June, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, said her daughter wanted the world to know that "she does love her country, and she is a patriot."

Winner was denied bail, however, in part because of evidence that she held radical beliefs and potentially dangerous intentions. Among the evidence suggesting she was a flight risk was her "fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism" and a comment she made about wanting to "burn the White House down."

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Winner was also famously overheard boasting during a phone call from jail that she'd be able to manipulate the court because she is "pretty, white and cute" and saying she'd "instructed family members to transfer $30,000 into her mother’s account so she’d appear poor enough for a court-appointed attorney," WSB-TV reported.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/35215/nsa-leaker-who-called-trump-orange-fascist-james-barrett
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There's pictures in RR's article that dispute the pretty and cute part, she is white though. She kind of looks like Jake from 2 and a half men.
 
BOP

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Kyle said:
A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking U.S. secrets about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison.

It was the sentence that prosecutors had recommended in the plea deal — the longest sentence ever given for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media — for Reality Winner, the Georgia woman at the center of the case. Winner was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.

The crime carried a maximum penalty of 10 years. U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, Georgia, was not bound to follow the plea deal, but elected to give Winner the amount of time prosecutors requested.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...hacking-attempts/ar-BBMl0Jg?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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She looks like she'd do well in prison.
 
Clem72

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Kyle said:
A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking U.S. secrets about Russia's attempts to hack the 2016 presidential election was sentenced Thursday to five years and three months in prison.

It was the sentence that prosecutors had recommended in the plea deal — the longest sentence ever given for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media — for Reality Winner, the Georgia woman at the center of the case. Winner was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.

The crime carried a maximum penalty of 10 years. U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, Georgia, was not bound to follow the plea deal, but elected to give Winner the amount of time prosecutors requested.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...hacking-attempts/ar-BBMl0Jg?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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First of all, that name is hilarious. Second, what the hell, a judge can just decide not to follow a plea-deal? **** that. Prosecutor says "accept a guilty plea and we will only push for the minimum sentence", judge says "Winner, Winner, 4 years of prison dinner!"
 
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