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posted by takyon on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the reality-check dept.

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Reality Winner pleads guilty to leaking NSA election hacking data

Reality Winner was expected to plead guilty to leaking NSA data, and she's done just that. The whistleblower has officially pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful retention and dissemination of national defense information. Sentencing will have to wait, but the felony carries a maximum penalty of 63 months (5.25 years) with up to three years of supervised release.

Winner faced the charge after giving The Intercept NSA documents that showed Russia's military intelligence wing, the GRU, attempting to hijack the computers of 122 local election officials ahead of the 2016 American vote. The NSA had determined that Russia wanted to collect information about election-related hardware and software in what could have been a precursor to manipulating the vote itself.

Previously: Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document
Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript


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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:18AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:18AM (#699690) Homepage Journal

    I'm not ginger, I'm blond. And so is she. But she hates me for the color of my hair. And she hates white folks, she asked my friend Kanye -- who made a magnificent fake sex "tape" of me -- to "make a shirt that says, being white is terrorism." But she looks white to me. And she looks white to white folks. Let me tell you, some people are haters. Some are losers. Some are leakers. And some are liars. Reality is all those things. She's a hater & a loser, a leaker & a liar. NO PARDON!!!!

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 29 2018, @01:38AM

    When she vacationed in Japan she purchased a t-shirt upon which was written in Kanji: "I Am A White Person".

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