CrimsonPhantom
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Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
Quote:Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to a news outlet in June, has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.
Winner, 26, was sentenced to 63 months in prison in federal court in Georgia on Thursday. Winner was arrested in June 2017 after leaking a classified NSA document to The Intercept that described Russian government efforts to breach state voting systems ahead of the 2016 elections. The Intercept reported on the document that month, and Winner’s arrest was made public shortly thereafter.
Winner, a former linguist for the Air Force, had been working as a contractor at a government facility in Georgia since February 2017 where she had a top security clearance, affording her access to highly classified material.
Winner was charged with one count of violating the Espionage Act and is the first individual to be prosecuted under the law during the Trump administration. This past June, Winner pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, which called for the sentence of 63 months — five years and three months — in prison.
According to court documents, Winner’s prison time will be followed by three years supervised release. Winner’s sentence is the longest ever imposed over unauthorized leaks to the media.
Federal officials said that they hoped Winner’s sentence would serve as a deterrent against other potentially damaging national security leaks in the future.
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
Keep in mind: she’s been *Sentenced* to 63 months. Doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll be out of circulation for that long.
Not really that bad of an outcome for the defendant. I’ve known people get more-serious time for less-serious crime.
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
What's the over/under on how many hundreds of thousands of dollars the TDS crowd is going to blow on her go fund me account?
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
(08-27-2018 05:20 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: Keep in mind: she’s been *Sentenced* to 63 months. Doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll be out of circulation for that long.
Not really that bad of an outcome for the defendant. I’ve known people get more-serious time for less-serious crime.
Hillary didn't get 63 months.
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CrimsonPhantom
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
(08-27-2018 05:51 PM)bullet Wrote: (08-27-2018 05:20 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: Keep in mind: she’s been *Sentenced* to 63 months. Doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll be out of circulation for that long.
Not really that bad of an outcome for the defendant. I’ve known people get more-serious time for less-serious crime.
Hillary didn't get 63 months.
The left will argue she has timed served being married to Bill
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
First you've got to be pretty or cute, and my sights aren't even aimed that high. She's at least a 12 pack.
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RE: Reality (Checked) Winner (Winner Chicken Dinner) NSA leaker gets 5 years
(08-27-2018 06:22 PM)HCJag Wrote: First you've got to be pretty or cute, and my sights aren't even aimed that high. She's at least a 12 pack.
There are some you can't even drink pretty.
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