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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, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:03PM (9 children)
Welp, Runaway's got nothin'
Can we all agree that Russia interfered in our election now?
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:10PM (5 children)
Yep. By supporting Hillary.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:25PM (3 children)
Yep. By supporting Hillary.
That's laughably false.
But, if it were true, I'd still want to rain down on them like a ton of bricks. That's the difference between patriots and traitors.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:27PM (2 children)
>That's laughably false.
Except for the part where both the Clintons and Podestas accepted lots of money from some shady Russian billionaires.
DERPA DERPA IT'S OKAY WHEN WE DO IT!!!
(Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:31PM
Well I'm glad we didn't elect the person who accepted lots of money from shady Russian billionaires.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:24AM
(Score: 1) by Aegis on Friday September 29 2017, @06:05AM
Reality Loser
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:21PM (1 child)
Probably, but interfered in what way? I don't think being somehow tied to the release of those emails - which were real - is such a big deal; those should have been public anyway. The RNC emails should be public too. Russia's interference would be more serious if they actually managed to alter vote counts. As it is, the emails had some effect on people's voting decisions, but the choice was still their own.
There's a billion things wrong with Trump, but corporate democrats seem to be using the Russia thing to avoid talking so much about how they aren't actually liberal. What a wasted opportunity, as usual.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday September 28 2017, @11:39PM
We may live to know if a nuclear spat with NK isn't invoked just to distract us.
In fresh news (Sep 28) : Trump-Russia investigators close in on sources named in explosive dossier [independent.co.uk]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:06AM
Russia has interfered with US elections dating back the Cold War...and the US has done the same.
Hell, the award-winning Cold War game Twilight Struggle is based mostly off of this concept.
The problem with the "Russia 2016" narrative comes from the misrepresentation of "meddling" as "tampering" which are two clearly different things. The Russians funneled money towards influencing the election through advertising, news stories, etc. They did not compromise ballot integrity.