NSA leaker who mailed doc outlining Russian hacking gets 5 years in prison
Reality Winner, the intelligence contractor who leaked to The Intercept and was quickly caught in June 2017 thanks to microdot printing, was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday. She had pleaded guilty on June 21 to a single count of unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information.
The information that Winner provided to The Intercept resulted in this June 5, 2017 news story: "Top-Secret NSA Report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election."
Previously: Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document
Reality Winner NSA Leak Details Revealed by Court Transcript
Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking NSA Election Hacking Data
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 24 2018, @01:56AM
Peasants are to stupid to know these things. As evidence, I present this "Reality Winner" character who was caught almost before her "evidence" could be read by the people she leaked it to.
It would have been a kindness if some teacher in Reality's past had taught her, "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup." Or, more true to Tolkien, "Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."