Woman arrested who might be the whistleblower who leaked NSA report to the Intercept.

[pnwmom]

On edit: The woman has now been named by the Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/russian-hackers-targeted-vote-software-company-officials-report-article-1.3223517

Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old who works at government contractor Pluribus International in Georgia, was charged Monday with sending top secret information to an unidentified news outlet.

NBC News reported Monday evening that the news outlet in question was The Intercept.

The federal affidavit said that Winner admitted to the leaking.

Pluribus International did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily News.

Link to tweet

[Adrahil]

1. If you leak classfied info...

You'd better be prepared for the consequences, even if you do it for a good reason.

[jberryhill]

2. Seems pretty stupid to print it out, given that the system is audited

...and there were only six people who had printed the document.

Unless, of course, being arrested was an anticipated event.

[pnwmom]

5. She's only 25. Maybe she didn't think it through. Or maybe she did

and is prepared to take the consequences.

[bresue]

3. We have not had any bombshells for several days?

Or have I missed them? There for a while, we were getting them frequently.

[pnwmom]

6. Two days ago we learned that Mueller has now taken over

the Manafort investigation, in addition to the Flynn investigation. That's significant.

https://apnews.com/35b610bf8d66416798be8abb2ebd85b0/Special-counsel's-Trump-investigation-includes-Manafort-case

[bresue]

7. I guess I had not considered that since....

there has been so much speculation and forecasting on DU that Mueller would take over.....lol! (I thought it was old news)

[chillfactor]

4. w/o whistleblowers..

there would be so much we did not know.

[underthematrix]

8. If you read the charging document carefully this makes no sense.

[4139]

10. She confessed, here is the arrest warrant

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/971331/download

[Tanuki]

9. Per Jon Swaine of the Guardian, she is a former US Air Force linguist

who speaks Pashto, Farsi, and Dari.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonswaine?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[B2G]

11. What info did she leak? Nt

[pnwmom]

12. She allegedly leaked the NSA document reported here:

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/