Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian hacking

[ProudLib72]

link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/federal-contractor-leak-prosecution/index.html

(CNN)The Justice Department announced charges Monday against a federal contractor with Top Secret security clearance, after she allegedly leaked classified information to an online media outlet.

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation in Georgia, is accused of "removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet," according to a federal complaint.

CNN is told by sources that the document Winner allegedly leaked is the same one used as the basis for the article published Monday by The Intercept, detailing a classified National Security Agency memo. The NSA report, dated May 5, provides details of a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack on a US voting software supplier, though there is no evidence that any votes were affected by the hack.

A US official confirmed to CNN that The Intercept's document is a genuine, classified NSA document.

[Doodley]

1. The leaker is bigger news than the actual report about Russia's meddling in the election

[elehhhhna]

2. There is no way that someone named reality winner takes down the reality show host president

Come on.

[Ohioblue22]

4. Man, You can't make this shit up

[Beartracks]

5. Does kinda make me wonder....

... if Reality is a Republican op, set up to be "captured" to underscore the need to Stop The Leakers? Y'know, like: "Look, we got one! So beware all you REAL leakers, or THIS could happen to you!"

I haven't read any details at all on this story, so in the absence of any facts this particular thought crossed my mind.

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[Beartracks]

3. "Russian military intelligence cyberattack on a US voting software supplier."

Thought that part bore repeating.

"Russian military intelligence cyberattack on a US voting software supplier."

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[ProudLib72]

6. Anyway, the journalist covering it for the Guardian

interviewed her mother. I'll just include this tweet and you can go on over to look at the others if you like.

Link to tweet