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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 28 2017, @09:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-were-her-parents-thinking? dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @02:53AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:53AM (#574634) Homepage

    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.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @04:31AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:31AM (#574657) Homepage

    Modded Troll...looks like I found the Air Force guy who married the Navy girl at Lackland.