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Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor accused of leaking a document to The Intercept, has had her interrogation by the FBI detailed in a transcript filed by federal prosecutors:
A National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking a classified report on Russian hacking aimed at the 2016 election told FBI agents she smuggled the document out of a high security intelligence facility in her pantyhose. That and other details appear in a transcript federal prosecutors filed in court Wednesday detailing the interrogation of 25-year-old linguist Reality Winner by the FBI as they carried out a search warrant at her home in June.
[...] Winner appears to say she believed the contents of the report — which described Russian spearfishing cyberattacks aimed at U.S. voter registration databases — should be in the public debate. "I saw the article and was like, I don't understand why this isn't a thing," she said. "It made me very mad ... I guess I just didn't care about myself at that point. ... Yeah, I screwed up royally."
[...] The transcript hints at possible political motivations for the leak. Winner says she objected to her workplace tuning the TV to Fox News. She also had a signed photo of CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper, although she said the signature was fake. "I wasn't trying to be a Snowden or anything," Winner said, referring to NSA leaker Edward Snowden and his massive disclosures of details on U.S. government surveillance. "I guess it's just been hard at work because ... I've filed formal complaint about them having Fox News on, you know? Uh, at least, for God's sake, put Al Jazeera on, or a slideshow with people's pets. I've tried anything to get that changed." Despite Winner's statement to the FBI agents, prosecutors say that in a Facebook chat in March with her sister, Winner said she was on the "side" of both Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
On pages 4-5 of the transcript, the FBI agents discuss letting Reality Winner (RW) put groceries in her fridge and leash up her dog. Do they teach them that technique at the Academy?
Previously: Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:07PM (11 children)
She's all set up for the "clueless young patriot" defense, which would have given her a smaller jail sentence than massive leakers, had the US justice been fair and not under the orders of a few psychopaths... Then again, hitting Fox News rather than complain she couldn't wear her MAGA cap ... not smart.
How do people like that get Clearance again?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @01:21AM (2 children)
Most of the leakers could be trivially prevented, but it is politically incorrect to filter out commies and islamists.
This lady had some sort of "all religions are good" nonsense going on, collecting Islamic prayer stuff and a Hindu idol while going to a Christian church. That, plus hating Fox, plus the yoga, plus the tattoos, plus being a young blonde unwed female: it is pretty obvious that she was dangerously liberal.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @02:53AM (1 child)
It is also pretty obvious that she was set up -- making as much noise as she did, in that agency, and about that particular topic. She fit the profile as well as pissing off a lot of her coworkers, got the attention of counterintel, and they left within reach a big shiny gold-plated piece of paper labeled "Evidence to Bury Trump Forever" covered with "do not steal" sticky-notes.
If that goddam cow lacks the self-restraint to at least pretend to be a team player rather than a rabblerouser then she lacks the restraint of letting her ideology get the best of her under extreme temptation. She mentioned that she folded it half and snuck it out in her pantyhos? By now the goddamn thing has got to be stinking worse than she does. Because those pantyhos don't let the kitten breathe.
Any why do people say that Air Force girls are all hot? The Army and Marines have way more and hotter girls. Air force women, and Navy women, have a few perfect ones but 90% of them are disgusting ill-tempered cows who look (and act) exactly like Winner.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @04:31AM
Modded Troll...looks like I found the Air Force guy who married the Navy girl at Lackland.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:01AM (1 child)
Snowden, Manning, Winner... all part of the left.
To stop the leaks, simply toss out people who obviously hate America.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:15AM
Idiots though are apparently reserved for the right :D too many names to list, but AC seems to be at the top.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @02:17AM (4 children)
I hear and read that question a lot, and I'll tell you the answer -- people like that get their clearance, as I got mine (though SECRET, not TOP SECRET like hers), by joining the military right out of high school at age 18 and with no chance to drum up a bad history or have bad credit, divorces, or having lived in 5 places in the past 10 years with somebody other than their parents.
In other words, it's pretty easy to do when you're 18 and enlisting in the military. Even people with TOP SECRET clearances are allowed to have political opinions, hell, the former head of the CIA admitted to being a member of the Communist party.
And if you had minor run-ins with the law or drug use that is a matter of record at that age, as long as you admit it on the E-QIP(or, SF-86) and to the investigators, you will not be separated (though you will be retrained into another field) if you aren't granted your clearance.
It was a whole different ball-game back when I got mine, before 9/11 and Snowden. Now, the average time just to be granted a SECRET is 9 fucking months and (usually) includes an intimidating interview by some suited-up goon in shades and a buzzcut (for those seeking clearance in the military, the questioning is handled by a military person after basic training). The rule of thumb is, if you aren't on the record doing it (meaning usually pot), then don't admit it. For TOP SECRET, which typically takes a year and 3 months-ish, you will be subject to an SSBI which includes a polygraph (and I've heard that some of those national security polygraph investigators can be quite abusive when it comes to past history).
Finally, the conspiracy theorist in me does want to believe that there's something funny and deliberate about the names of all these noveau leakers - Bradley Manning (as in, manning an army Bradley tank), Edward Snowden ("Snowed-in," a reference to being cornered in Russia), and finally Reality Winner (We'll see if she wins at her trial).
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Friday September 29 2017, @04:20AM
Well that was only possible because the POTUS at the time was third generation Communist Party himself.
It is becoming obvious though that our government is infected top to bottom with every enemy one can imagine. Communists, Islamists, anarchists, Ecoterrorists, is there anything dangerous they won't hand out a security clearance to these days? This much poz has to kill the host soon.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday September 29 2017, @04:33AM (1 child)
Basically if sounds like if you seek out this kind of work, you are probably not wanted. If they come looking for you they already know the answers to their own questions. If you get the work foisted on you by your boss, run away.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:03PM
Oh no people have confessed to murders at their security "interviews"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:50AM
It is all a hoax. They make us believe because we want to believe. Remember what Faux Molder said? "I want to believe".
They give us hoaxes because we want to believe in fantasies. Here are some good links:
1. Taylor Swift - Lipstick on a Pig [youtube.com]
2. Jewrassic Liars [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Friday September 29 2017, @02:31AM
You asking 'bout Clearance Grant, Reality Winner's boyfriend?
They didn't get him yet, no, he's still at large.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford