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NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison

posted by takyon on Friday August 24 2018, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the reality-checkmate dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 24 2018, @02:25AM (6 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday August 24 2018, @02:25AM (#725556) Journal

    Considering it's a 5 year sentence, even if a Democrat was elected in 2020, Reality Winner is not getting out early. Obama waited until the last week of his Presidency to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence. No way is a Democrat going to pardon someone convicted of a national security violation during the middle of their first term.

    I predict that Reality Winner will still have a better life than most ex-convicts.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 24 2018, @02:42AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 24 2018, @02:42AM (#725564) Journal

    I dunno - with a name like that - her life is already ruined. Other possible better names include "Kick me, I'm Irish" or "Cowboy butts drive me nuts". "North West"?

    People really ought to give their children names with some dignity. One day, I expect to meet a pair of children named Beavus and Butthead.

    • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday August 24 2018, @02:47AM (1 child)

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Friday August 24 2018, @02:47AM (#725568)

      "hi, I'm larry, this is daryll and this is my other brother daryll"

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      "It is now safe to switch off your computer."

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 24 2018, @02:53AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 24 2018, @02:53AM (#725571) Journal

        I used that one on job sites from time to time. It was funniest when neither Daryll nor Daryll had ever met me before.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:12AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @08:12AM (#725690)

      Thoughts and prayers to her siblings Tony and Emmy, dad Oscar and his mom Grammy.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by bob_super on Friday August 24 2018, @06:53PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Friday August 24 2018, @06:53PM (#725972)

        Her little sister Lottery left and never looked back.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @12:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 24 2018, @12:22PM (#725759)

    suppose the illegal whistle blowing helped protect the constitution? mmmh?ahhh?errrr?