Reality Leigh Winner arrested by the FBI
The Department of Justice reports that the FBI arrested 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner (with the name of a race horse) at her home on Saturday near Augusta, Georgia for passing classified information to the media from her workstation at the NSA.
Winner is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia. She has been employed at the facility since on or about February 13, and has held a Top Secret clearance during that time. On or about May 9, Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information from an intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained it. Approximately a few days later, Winner unlawfully transmitted by mail the intelligence reporting to an online news outlet.
The Washington Examiner reports that she shared that information with Intercept, Glenn Greenwald’s enterprise (think Ed Snowden);
The announcement came shortly after The Intercept published a report based on a classified intelligence document showing Russian government hackers attempted to hack more than 100 local election officials before the November election.
According to the report, Russian military intelligence sent the emails to local elections officials. They also attempted a cyberattack on at least one American voting software supplier.
The affidavit filed against Winner tells how the FBI caught her;
12. On June I, 2017, the FBI was notified by the U.S. Government Agency that the U.S. Government Agency had been contacted by the News Outlet on May 30, 2017, regarding an upcoming story. The News Outlet informed the U.S. Government Agency that it was in possession of what it believed to be a classified document authored by the U.S. Government Agency. The News Outlet provided the U.S. Government Agency with a copy of this document. Subsequent analysis by the U.S. Government Agency confirmed that the document in the News Outlet’s possession is the intelligence reporting. The intelligence reporting is classified at theTop Secret level, indicating that its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security, and is marked as such. The U.S. Government Agency has since confirmed that the reporting contains information that was classified at that level at the time that the reporting was published on or about May 5, 2017, and that such information currently remains clasified at that level.
13. The U.S. Government Agency examined the document shared by the News Outlet and determined the pages of the intelligence reporting appeared to be folded and/or creased, suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space.
14. The U.S. Government Agency conducted an internal audit to determine who accessed the intelligence reporting since its publication. The U.S. Government Agency determined that six individuals printed this reporting. WINNER was one of these six individuals. A further audit of the six individuals’ desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with the News Outlet.
15. On June 3, 2017, your affiant spoke to WINNER at her home in Augusta, Georgia. During that conversation, WINNER admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue despite not having a “need to know,” and with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was classified. WINNER further admitted removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it, and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to the News Outlet, which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess the documents. WINNER further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.
One down. According to the Daily Caller, she’s a Bernie supporter;
Reality Leigh Winner’s apparent social media footprint also shows that she is a supporter of other liberal causes, including the Women’s March and the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim civil rights group.
She also recently referred to President Trump as a “piece of shit” because of his position on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests.
CNN says that she is an Air Force veteran where she was a cunning Pashto, Farsi and Dari linguist.
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Hopefully reality will visit Reality
I am an election official and believe I may hve received one of those Russian e-mails. It offered to sell me Viagra at a great price. I responded I think they meant for their e-mail to have been sent to Jonn
You were offered Viagra? Wow, I was offered 21 year old Russian girls who like Americans. They even sent me pictures. But, I’ve heard that Russian brides can become dominators once you are married. Until then they are sweet and nice and easy going.
I don’t need a Russian for that, I can marry an American woman and get the same treatment.
Prior military service, huh?
I’m sure she caught “the PTSD” and will use that as her defense.
So she completed basic in 2011, does an AF enlistment still require a total 8 year military service obligation (MSO)? If still under her original MSO, I suspect somebody on the AF side will be digging a deeper.
My understanding of current enlistments is that one incurs an 8 year minimum obligation, and if this is correct, she is still in the reserves, thus making it possible for her to be court martialed for this if they work it right. Stick it to the traitor, and she can worship Bernie the Communist from prison.
Yes, yes, YES!!!! Treason, and in a time of war. String ‘er up!
Pretty sure Reservists have to be on active duty orders at the time of their crime in order to be subject to UCMJ.
Right. And the Fifth Amendment requires a grand jury (which you don’t get in court martial) “except…in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger.”
Also, a court-martial panel is not a jury, but Article III of the Constitution says “the trial of all crimes shall be by jury.” — the Supreme Court, at least on its good days, is restrictive about putting even serious crimes in front of military tribunals.
“Reality” sounds like a repulsive specimen and I daresay deserves worse than she’ll get, but whatever she gets will have to be in a civilian court.
No, reservists are subject to the UCMJ on any day they are on duty. They do not need orders. Every day of duty is title 10 in the reserves.
National Guard are only subject to the UCMJ while on active duty title 10 orders. Active duty title 25 orders does not subject one to the UCMJ but there are. National Guard judicial processes in most states
Anything is possible, but I doubt she will be court martialed. She would have to be brought on active orders for the the trial, and it sounds like she was not on active orders at the time of the crime. Wouldn’t make sense to bring her back and court martial her.
A man can dream, though. And, as NEC338x said, its pretty likely an AF agency will be scrutinizing her record in the near future.
The 8 year service obligation can be met with a combination of active, reserve. National Guard, and inactive ready reserve service.
If she is in the IRR she so not subject to the UCMJ.
If she is reserves she is only subject to the UCMJ while on actual duty. So her non duty days are not subject to the UCMJ.
If she is National Guard she is only subject to start guard judicial processes while on duty normally,the UCMJ if she is on duty under title ten orders. And otherwise she is not subject to the UCMJ at all.
Even if she’s in the Reserve currently, they won’t bother bringing her onto orders to deal with this. The DoJ already has their hooks into her solidly and they’ve done the work so far to put her away. I’m sure DoD is more than happy to let them deal with her.
If she’s in the Reserves in any capacity, they’ll be excusing her shortly. (Due to the fact she’s already admitted to the wrong-doing, let alone the conviction she’ll be getting soonly.)
My thinking is call her to an annual Muster Day while she is locked up. Failure to muster is pretty much grounds for discharge. Would be disappointing to see the AF give her an Honorable just to get her off the books.
Actually if they fail to appear for Muster, the commander is authorized to give an “Other Than Honorable” discharge to them because of not being present for involuntary duty.
The same is an option for pissing hot. An OTH discharge is a fairly easy option to implement. Though, it also depends the size of the stack on the Judge Advocate’s desk as to what they’ll recommend. If it is a huge stack, they might just offer a “General Discharge” to the hot-pisser to get out safely as a plea deal. Then, if they want to try coming back in 6 months later, they can do that.
I’ve recommended OTH’s for certain troops and even recommended to troops they take the General discharge option for pissing hot because they wouldn’t win and “could” get an OTH if they tried to appeal to stay in.
In her case it is a non-issue and I’m sure her former unit is relieved that she’s gone and they don’t have to deal with it.
Taking Mick’s line shamelessly. ..
Reality
*Sigh*
The left will now say this is ” proof” that Trump rigged the elections with the Russians and hail her as a hero.
In the past 8 years the military has allowed people who have no business wearing a uniform in the ranks. Snowden, Berdahl, Manning and now this piece of work.
The only thing this proves is our security investigations and other procedures suck, millennial are dangerously naive, and that the Russians did in fact try to interfere with the elections.
No one is claiming that Trump deliberately colluded with the Russians to rig the elections (at least no one with any credibility). The claim is that Trump and his campaign staff unwittingly did some remarkably stupid things that amplified the effects of Russian efforts to degrade America’s trust and confidence in the electoral system.
No, the claim of the left is that Trump ACTIVELY colluded with the Russians.
Also, I would ask, what things did Trump do that ‘amplified’ the effect. If anything, I would think the stupidity of Hillary’s campaign and the DNC degraded the confidence in the system considering how they were caught colluding with Hillary to throw the primary her way.
Who’s ‘The Left’? could you share a link?
Trump’s campaign and administration is under investigation, but my prediction is we will learn of a series of miscues by a disorganized, inexperienced, and surprisingly naïve staff. If it turns out they did actively and wittingly collude I will be surprised.
Trump amplified it through various blunders like exposing the fact that we had intel related to Russian efforts, undermining confidence in the National Security apparatus and intel community, (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/15/the-many-times-trump-undermined-questioned-shocked-and-upset-his-own-intelligence-agencies/?utm_term=.e8e9cf49edd0), and generally tweeting like a middle schooler at a Justin Bieber concert.
The Russians were probably agnostic as to the winner of the election, their goal was to undermine our confidence in the system. I’m sure they are ecstatic at how Trump has taken the bait
I already had no trust or confidence in the electoral system in places like Detroit, Chicago, New York, Califruitsandnutz, Virginia, Maryland and Minnesota. The Russians couldn’t “degrade trust and confidence” in those places.
reddevil,
if by “Russians did in fact try to interfere” you mean that “democrats leaked documents to wiki and to journalists” then, yes.
“Russians, this time, did not support their usual Democrat fellow-travelers and favorites…”
(Which is why the Donks are so -very- pissed off about Russia.)
Fixed it for you.
The basis of this story is that an NSA contractor illegally released to the press classified reports that the Russians perpetrated two cyberattacks that may have impacted the 2016 presidential election.
While she is a traitor and will probably go to jail over this, it proves that the Russians tried to interfere with the election.
This is a separate incident and has nothing to do with the DNC hacks, regardless of what really happened there (were they hacked or did a disillusioned staffer leak?)
Snowden, Bergdahl, Manning, and now this Winner twit all seem to fit the same general profile: dumbass entitled Millenial snowflakes who think the rules don’t apply to them. Prison should serve as a nice wake up call.
And i have a funny feeling there won’t be any clemency for her.
After you’re through pillorying her, anyone the least bit interested in how the Russians subverted our election? I didn’t think so.
You mean attempted to subvert… and yeah, they did it the same way they’ve done it every year for decades… so yes, we should work to stop it (private email server ring a bell) like having programs in place to limit intrusions (DNC anyone???) so as usual joey pops in with a red herring to change the subject…
You know folks, I think Joe has appointed himself(?) the angry spouse of TAH. No matter what we say here, Joe always jumps in and says something snotty, bitching at us just to be bitching, always pissing in our cornflakes.
Poor Joe, life must be tough when you go through it as an angry, sullen bitch constantly snapping at everyone around you.
Poor baby…
Joey, if you weren’t such an uninformed wad of bubblegum, it would help a lot.
The Soviet Union – ever hear of that? – was doing that for decades before you were born, you idiot. Now it’s the Russians? Yeah, their hackers are not nearly as skilled as North Korean hackers, dipstick. If Russian hackers were that skilled, the Central Bank of Bangladesh’s money would be sitting in a Russian bank, feeding Vlad Putin’s war in Syria instead of North Korea’s missile experiments.
You really are sometimes dumber than a cheese wheel on a Roman chariot.
Russian hackers unskilled. Remind me again what planet you are from?
Ex-PH, the Russians have a very capable cyber capability. We’ve known this for years but I guess we figured it couldn’t happen here like it did in Ukraine…
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/21/ukrainian-elder-statesman-how-russian-hybrid-war-is-changing-the-world-order/
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-behind-russia-cyber-warfare-2016-7
https://www.scmagazineuk.com/russia-overtaking-us-in-cyber-warfare-capabilities/article/535065/
http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/russia-tops-china-as-principal-cyber-threat-to-us/
“…anyone the least bit interested in how the Russians subverted our election?”
Yeah Joe, I’m interested. How did they?
(crickets)
Now maybe we’ll find out.
So, you do not actually -know-, you just assert repeatedly that it must be so.
The main problem being, this time they did not support -your- team, thus they are now “bad”.
Well, we sort of already know. The Director of National Intelligence published a report: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/read-us-intelligence-report-russian-hacking-2016-campaign/
(Forgive the motherjones link; it’s the only place I could find where the document would open).
I’ve noticed that when some people say the Russians ‘influence the election’ the response is that there is no evidence that they ‘hacked’ the election.
There is no evidence (that I am aware of, but the leaks seem to keep coming) that the Russians were able to hack voting machines or in some way directly influence the election.
There is overwhelming evidence that they used various cyberattacks to mislead and misdirect voters and election officials. It’s unclear if they had a desired outcome other than degrading faith in the process and therefore American standing in the world as the example of freedom in action.
This is part of the Gerasimov doctrine, which is this sort of hybrid war theory that the Russians have used to great success in Europe.
Of course, the president doubled down on this by degrading faith in the intel community, the FBI, his own staff, and the US in general. I don’t think the Russians counted on that part, but I’m sure they appreciate it.
Look! Squirrel!
Joe and Commissar are waiting for their Andrea Merkel leather bustiers – the ones that “lift and separates”, in a “socialist way”:
Newsflash, Joey: the Russians have been trying to subvert every one of our elections since at least 1936. Now you suddenly care?
So far, the evidence indicates that their various hacking attempts failed. Likely because, unlike Hillary Clinton’s email server, their targets were actually secured. You lose, dipshit.
Where was little Joey with his righteous hissy fits when Obama dispatched a generously funded team of Democrat election operatives to Israel to defeat Netanyahu in that presidential election?
Like most angry libs, Joey has a well-developed sense of selective outrage. Most of us simply call it hypocrisy.
This is not to say that the attempted Russian meddling doesn’t irritate me, or anyone else. Of course we don’t want them to do it.
The point is that they’ve been doing it (or trying, anyway) for so long that the “shocking revelation” was met by those of use who aren’t complete idiots with, “No shit, everybody knows about that. What rock have you been hiding under?”
And as long as their attempts continue to fail, as this last one evidently did, then they’re basically the superpower equivalent of the neighbor’s dog crapping on the sidewalk. It’s irritating and not cool, but not worth shots being fired.
You mean by letting Americans see the backstabbing double-dealing Dems throw Bernie under the bus to anoint Clinton?
The Dems are -furious-, because after decades of Russian support, the Russians did not support the Dems as they have come to expect.
In other words Clinton was such an appaulingly bad candidate that the -Russians- preferred a -Republican-.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, in other words…..
This group has zero concern with Russian influence on our political system or uS politicians compromising US and allied interest in order to serve Russia’s interest.
Most of them pretend to be patriots burnout party and their bizarre twisted version of “conservative” ideology over US national interest any day.
It is pretty disgusting.
They also don’t give a flying Fuck about the constitution if it is an issue involving the rights of demographics they do not like.
Many of them are pro fascist authoritarian personalities but are too dimwitted to realize it because they think “fascism” is a leftist ideology.
They also love strong man leaders (Putin,Dutrerte, Assad) and poser strong man leaders (Trump).
They also blatantly give a pass when conservative politicians steal valor (Mark Kirk) but will attack the lying piece of Shit’s opponent relentlessly despite the fact that she is a honorable combat wounded veteran – because partisanship means more than anything to some of these assholes.
They even gave a pass to Trump attacking a gold star family. Something they absolutely would never be OK with had a democrat done it.
Ironically, if Trump had run as a democrat they would hate Trump even if everything he said and claimed to believe was exactly the same.
These guys also have idiotic beliefs like “only democrats steal valor” and “there are almost no liberals in the military”.
How the fuck did you ever make Major? Somebody clearly fornicated Fido promoting you past 2nd John. Fuckwit
Lars was one of those shit heel zeros that were pawned off to useless billets and never given a command.
Likely he was one of those promoted JUST to get him the fuck OUT of a unit, I’ve seen that happen.
Being a Gold Star Family member doesn’t give anyone a right to say what they want to and everyone else just have to accept it.
They used their sons service and death to forward their political beliefs and then bitched about getting called on it.
Butt hurt much?
don’t forget, they got paid big money for that appearance as well.. and yes, Lars is constantly butt hurt.. it’s his status quo, like most SJW snowflakes… As for hime making Major, as my dad says, “it’s true that cream rises to the top, but shit floats too!”
Project much, Zampolit?
Where the frack were you all those decades of Russian meddling in our system? Oh, right. Now that they recognized how insanely bad your anointed gangster harpie candidate Clinton would be, the Russians decided, of all things, to prefer a -Republican-?
You are the woman scorned, dude.
Many heard have been warning of Russian hijinks for -decades-. But you told us “don’t fear the commies” right? Russian commies, maybe?
Your incoherence and cast-concrete mindset renders you incompetent at persuasion. Dragging a duffel bag of C-notes, you couldn’t persuade a squad of drunken soldiers to hit a titty bar.
You trumpet the russian meddling only after they apparently stopped supporting your team. Why should I take anything you say seriously now?
Hell, candyass Babbles McButthead won’t even acknowledge that President trump’s predecessor spent a few dump truck loads of our money trying to derail Bibi Netanyahu’s reelection let alone Ted *HICCUP!* Kennedy’s attempt to get the USSR to interfere with Ronald Reagan’s reelection.
Did she join the USAF with the intention to get security clearances so she can later steal documents from the USG?
Was she a self-initiated plant?
Or even worse, did someone recruit her so she can be planted within the organization, like John Walker did with his own daughter…???
If they could establish that, she would be as screwed as can be. Odd that they arraigned her only on that one charge. I used to deal with information security on both GenSer and SCI information, and she committed at least four federal felonies in this.
Arraigning her on only one charge may be the opening move by DOJ in starting negotiations with her attorney to get her to reveal all on the extent of her theft for damage control purposes, and/or turn evidence on possible accomplices or handlers…
I concur. They want to know what else she did for further leniency.
Though, I’d bet she didn’t do many of these if any others. She isn’t the only one doing this, she’s the only one who got caught so far.
Possible, but more likely she is a typical egocentric Gen-Y/Millennial that thinks everything is about her.
She saw what she perceived to be an injustice, and like Snowden and Manning before her, decided that the right thing to do was to let the world know.
Because of her egocentrism she never considered. She never considered the fact that she was just a single source intel analyst and only had one bit of information, and was ignorant of legitimate efforts to stop the hacking. It never occurred to her that sending the info to the media would in fact degrade our ability to stop Russian hacking.
In other words, in her mind she concocted a story where she is the hero. I bet that when they investigate further they’ll find that she told a bunch of her friends exactly what she did.
She probably saw that Manning has 6 figures in the bank from other people and thinks she’ll be taken care of and live the easy life too.
The fact that they “attempted to hack” one company’s voting software isn’t news though. We already knew that the Russians attempted to do that kind of thing. Just as much as we know that the DNC rigged the election. So, she’s “too smart” for her own good and doesn’t realize how stupid she is.
You know the question that is never asked about the DNC rigging the primary against Bernie?
If you know the Democrats are so dishonest they will rig their party’s internal candidate selection process, why on earth would you grant them a presumption of honest behavior in the general election where the stakes are much, much higher?
Because far too many people in this country don’t care what their own party does, but will admonish the slightest issue with the opposite party. That’s why they were willing to forgive any and all issues with Hillary because she was their candidate. Even Bernie, who showed up to support her as the candidate.
Or was that rhetorical? lol.
A Winner and a Loser at the same time. Sublime.
She comes off as a ccomplete nut. I also call BS on her proficiency as a Pashto, Farsi and Dari linguist.
I swear, these contracting companies for NSA will hire anyone these days, without doing a thorough background check on their claims and resumes.
Cleared contractor companies would hire a ham sandwich sight unseen if it had an active TS/Poly.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the case more often than not lately.
I’ve met my fair share of Military personnel working on the NSA side of Fort Meade when I was in Maryland. Just because you are afforded the privilege to work in intel collection, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it was done because of some super skill set (such as the 3 languages listed).
Oh yeah!!! If you have a TS SCI with a lifestyle poly, you are set for LIFE.
I would opine that like many uniformed Middle East/South West Asia linguists, she was assigned first operational tour at “Georgia” following DLI and service specific training. There, like many of her peers, she jumped ship (or aircraft in her case) following her term of enlistment for a GS or contractor position… better pay, easier hours and less bullshit. She still would have to have maintained DLPT scores and mission specific language requirements to “sit a pos”. Also, given the relatively sequestered nature of that linguist community, everyone’s rep is reasonably established and shitbirds would not likely be tolerated. I will tell you though that the intelligence and linguistic attributes it takes to excel at these difficult languages often are matched by eccentricities.
Yeah, but something about all of this still doesn’t make any sense.
2011 was the start of a 6 year enlistment (articles reference Columbia, MD so I know it’s the NSA side of Ft. Meade). She goes to DLI, becomes written and speaking proficient in all 3 of these extremely difficult languages, and then gets busted in this leaking in 2017. Her 6 year enlistment would have ended the same year, so that means she just got busted on the job as a recently hired contractor.
Pretty impressive if she was able to master those three languages in such a short timeframe. It’s also pretty impressive that she managed to commit a felony by leaking classified information in such a short timeframe as a recent hire as contractor.
Six years active still means 2 years IRR, I believe. How close are those three languages to each other? Are they like English, French, an German? Or like Czech, Slovak, and Polish? If the latter, her picking up a 3/3 in each is not unprecedented. Had a guy in the class ahead of me who picked up Italian while in the Czech course – and was a raving Nazi to boot. “Eccentricities” in many cases was a gross understatement.
I speak these 3 languages. They are very similar with many common words and phrases.
More like Latin, French and Spanish or Italian.
Speaking is only half the issue. While all of the languages derives from the Aryan language tree (much like English is a Germanic language), the differences vary in accent and writing styles.
The writing is almost like an art form or caligraphy. And there are quite a few differences in the writing of Dari and Farsi, compared to Pashto.
Correct. I read and write Farsi and Dari is closer. I picked up Pashto on an immersion program. Immersion gives one the local colliquialisms and slang for that particular region. I was always questioned by native Farsi speakers which school I learned Farsi at because I spoke so formal and proper.
And you don’t go to DLI for “Three” languages at once. You go for one language at a time. The likelihood you get to go for three different languages in your career isn’t something I’ve ever heard of (and I’ve sent quite a few troops to DLI).
She might’ve learned Farsi at DLI and studied Pashto and Dari on her own? (“I learned at DLI and then did two languages on Rosetta Stone’s website, I know all three!”)
She might very well have been excused from the Air Force for being a little douche-nozzle. It definitely wasn’t for violating an NDA or doing drugs (though she looks like she smokes the ganja daily) because they’d have suspended her clearance.
But yes, this is fairly strange.
The three languages listed are more like one-and-a-half… Dari and Farsi are mutually understandable, and Pashto has some similarities, in particular with its grammar and some common roots in vocabulary.
It also seems she had some extra-curricular interest in Persian (not meant to imply anything nefarious; she just liked the people?), so perhaps she went to DLI for Pashto and learned Farsi/Dari via friends and self-study.
I spent close to a year picking up as much as I could of Pashto on a Detainee Ops mission in Afghanistan.
There are some similiarities in some of the dialect in Pahsto, Dari, and Farsi, but writing can be completely different. Farsi and Pashto for instance can be completely different in so many ways:
https://cairenediaries.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/persian-for-dummies-numbers-from-1-10/
https://www.pinterest.com/kamal2k20/learning-pashto/
Huh! Guess you learn something new every day. I was coming from the other side; I speak some Persian, and know a tiny bit of Pashto. I always figured the latter was pretty similar because I picked it up faster than I did Persian, but maybe that’s just because Persian was first and was utterly foreign to me.
Thanks for the heads up on the greater differences. These days English causes me enough difficulty so I’ll leave the Pashto to others! 😉
The AF takes Farsi first then puts them through a short conversion course to gain the Dari. Don’t know about the Pashto, but I believe there is a conversion course for that as well. Or she just rolled the dice on the DLPT and got the 1/1 thing.
So how about the organization that received and published the classified info? She’s going to need some cell mates….
I’m sure her skills as a cunning linguist will get her a personal server at prison chow time or at least the opportunity to go to the head of the line.
So, two questions. Do girls get to toss salad just like the boys and how much longer do we have to wait for IDC SARC’s assessment of hittability?
She’s hittable now, but let’s see what she looks like after ten years or so in prison. Most women after a decade in the joint come out looking pretty rough.
“Strap-on Sally” and the gals are gonna have fun with her…
Something tells me she will enjoy it just as much if not more that Strap On Sally will.
Throw away the key.
What if it is a setup?
Ah! You mean, you think The Big They suspected her and were watching every move?
Spy vs. Spy: that sort of thing.
Bad Girl…..I’d hit it.
BANG !!!!!
KA-BLAM!!!
with a rusty post hole digger.
When Pres. Trump made some statements about the count of the popular vote, wasn’t there some “BIG INVESTIGATION’ that proved there was no voter fraud?
Didn’t Jill Stein waste people’s time with recounts that found out nothing? This “Russia Connection” will be the red herring the Dems chase the next few years. Reminds me of the Tea Party’s birther movement.
Barry was born in Hawaii and Trump didn’t get any help from the Ruskies…time to move on.
Exactly.
Now that’s not saying that Barry didn’t lie on his college admissions, just that he was, in fact, born in Hawaii.
Personally, I always suspected that Bullshittn Barry was a citizen scamming the “foreign” angle in College to woo women and gain “cred”.
I wonder if the college sealed his stuff because one or more bits of it rose to felony fraud level……..
Don’t forget the foreign student preference and scholarships..
As I recall, there was quite a bit of fraud discovered in Detroit…aimed at rigging the election for Clinton.
Treason anyone? Oh, yeah, that’s not a fashionable charge this week. Or decade.
Disgusting.
OK, I just have to say it:
Reality sux.
I’m sure she will to get any sort of leniency, whether in the DA’s office or in prison.
Reality bites.
But that is okay, because so many people are into that kind of thing, especially in prison.
They used to shoot traitors, didn’t they?
No, you hang them. Shooting is too good for them. Damn if I ain’t tired of this shit.
Hanging is too good for her
Burning is too good for her.
She should be torn into bitsy pieces, and buried alive!!!!
…ahem… where did this little green rock come from?
Me, too, akpual. Me, too.
“Reality Leigh Winner ”
Parents must have really hated this girl….she was cursed from the get go.
No, they were probably just hippy dirt bags.
“CNN says that she is an Air Force veteran where she was a cunning Pashto, Farsi and Dari linguist.”
Ha ha ha ha ha – BRILLIANT
So, does that make her Lesbianese?
No, she’s from Georgia, not the Isle of Lesbos. That’s in Greece.
Ah, so she’s Georgianese. Hmmm.
Hangman cometh none to soon.
Gahhh!!!!! She’s is about as smart as perky moose tits…~smdh~
Good morning. I am SO borrowing that, TC.
Brilliant!
lol Its all yours my friend 🙂
Cat’s out of the bag. Now what?
(Aside from the trial, tears and stuff.)
Now What, PH? Well, the obligatory claims of PTSD which caused lapse of judgement.
Stupid, stupid girl.
Oh well; here we go again. Clueless, naïve, misguided millennial ‘idealism’ is about to get run over and obliterated by the harsh realities of the consequences of conducting espionage against one’s own country.
Boom. (That’s the sound of her jail cell door slamming shut)
It seems to me there are at least three separate issues at work with all this:
The first is that the case against Winner is going to depend on whether or not the NSA report turned over to The Intercept was something she would be involved with as part of her normal workload. If it was, a good defense attorney could claim she was acting as a whistle blower.
Both the NSA report and The Intercept story appear to be weak, and filled with mostly “could be” or “might have” speculation. The closest the Ivans apparently got was sending fake email on behalf of VR Systems, an election software vendor, to a very small group of local elected officials. Nor is there any evidence those officials acted on the email scam.
It might also be pointed out that VR Systems is not involved in vote tabulation. They apparently provide a database product that keeps track of voter registration. Something you can often get a copy of by going down to the local registrar of voters, and telling them you run, say, a political action committee.
Given the time frame of when the hacker activity was going on, late last October, it doesn’t make sense that the intent was to disrupt the election process at a tally level. There simply wasn’t enough lead time to have in place those kinds of controls. An alternate theory could be that the intent wasn’t to alter the outcome of the election, it was to monitor it at a level unfiltered by news media.
According to the affidavit signed by the FBI agent:
On June 3, 2017, your affiant spoke to WINNER at her home in Augusta, Georgia. During that conversation, WINNER admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue despite not having a “need to know,” and with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was classified. WINNER further admitted removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it, and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to
the News Outlet, which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess the documents. WINNER further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States
and to the advantage of a foreign nation.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/971331/download
The facts she admitted to show she can’t claim “work load,” or even “whistleblower” protections.
You’re preaching to the choir, GC. My point was that a sharp legal defense might talk a civilian jury into the idea that whistleblower does apply because need-to-know is not specific enough to exclude normal workload exposure. What also seems a tricky question is whistleblowers usually qualify by exposing a nefarious activity, and do it not for personal gain. In this case, Winner is exposing the probe of the election system but who, from Winner’s point of view, is the guilty party? Is it the Russians for doing it, or the NSA for keeping the activity secret? And would a jury agree?
Lawyers will try any trick and any technicality to get a lesser conviction for their clients, regardless.
Good post Mr. Gaskill, thank you.
If I had my ‘Tour Goggles’ on for 60…no 30 days(or 3 pints any other time), Id hit that!!
Anyone else miss the boardwalk Tim Horton’s girls in KAF??
She was in the Air Force. If I was downrange and had the opportunity, I’d have done it just for the fact she was Air Force. (Especially if we got to use her AF Suite)
I’ll be curious to see if she actually deployed at all or not though. Let’s see what her records show.
But yes……what a terrible traitor!!!!
“A further audit of the six individuals’ desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet.” —– that’s the mark of an idiot or someone who wants to get caught.
Either way, throw away the key….for that matter…. throw away the cell.
Reality is going to hit Ms. Winner quite hard. I hope the government makes an example out of her and sends this 25 year old to life.
Oh, she is also a member of #TheResistance according to her Twitter account. How the hell did she get and/or keep her security clearance with what she was posting on social media?
You aren’t allowed to check social media for someone’s back story, das rayciss!
oh, like Manning got….right
No…this one is actually female.
She self-identifies as a set of saggy Balls on my Dog
Your poor dog.
I’d bet these leaks of highly-classified stuff would slow down considerably if they stood this skank against a wall and put a dozen new holes in her. Pour encourager l’autres, right?
I believe so.
Expedited.
Hang ‘er high!!
Another self-entitled snowflake of a Sparkle Pony with a felony “HEY everybody, look at me!!!” stunt that will likely get her prison. She sure looks smug and smartassed in that pic, kinda like a grinning opossum that just aye some shit out of a hairbrush, I wonder if that’s her mug shot? Oh, to be able to see true reality hit her when she got thrown in jail!
Maybe she’s thinking that all of this is a minor inconvenience? After “the truth” about Trump is released by like-minded morons like her, and he’s impeached, the new POTUS, Hillary, will pardon her. 🙂
Another millennial that went Balls Deep for Bernie, ’cause he promised them all sorts of Free Shit.
*spew alert* because I’m feeling generous.
I know her mug shot looked familiar…
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dbb2ad8233d44cc7b6783aa86ed33042?width=1024
One’s a Winner who lost and the other is an Olympic medalist.
And the million dollar question: How in the hell did this bint keep her clearance when her social media clearly shows her anti-American shit? There isn’t anything (laws) preventing HR or other hiring authority from checking social media accounts to determine if you’ll be a “good fit”. The contractor she works for needs to be thoroughly investigated/audited as well. I hope AJ Sessions buries her.
Obummer and the Libtards did away with that because it’s profiling
And it’s not fair
BHWHAHAHAHAHA! ! !
You have to love that Hope and Change
That self-entitled candyassed glitter-twat needs to get as many years in prison as possible and our current President is NOT someone who would commute her sentence.
Please tell me this isn’t the same contractor outfit that was busted twice for trying to hack elections in Georgia and South Carolina
Holy Crap it is the same Georgia out-fit that was Busted twice
I’ll steer away from “reality” and “Winner” related puns for the sake of everyone here.
I do want to give props to the news outlet for ratting on her. If more news agencies did that (vice just publishing them like the New York Times, a former newspaper) then there would be a lot less leaks. Seems there is at least one patriot in the media world.
Yeah, I found that part interesting as well. Did the news organization actually publish the classified material or did they just drop a dime and get her busted?
If they didn’t publish it, and contacted the cops instead, then I’d give them props for showing common sense.
OTOH if they used the material and THEN ‘burned their source’ (in intel-speak)then it must have been because they figured she was of no use to them any more.
This wasn’t clear anywhere I’ve read yet.
Did they get the documents and go “Oh SHIT” and then contact the FBI and NSA or did they get the documents and clap their hands and fire up the mimeograph machine (I know not news reporting in hard copy and dated and can’t everyone smell the ink?) and *THEN* contact the Government??
National Inquiring minds want to know.
the document was used in a story…the best part is that her company sat on this document for some time before she leaked it…
She sure likes that smirk. I google-imaged her and almost all her selfies have the same smirk.
Let’s see how she looks during her trial!
JSF
Like I said, she’s must have learned that somewhere.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dbb2ad8233d44cc7b6783aa86ed33042?width=1024
Islamic Society of North America…
That would be the Wahhabist, Jew hating Islamo-Nazis. Awesomeness, nooowww we do have actual Nazi’s in the government. They just are not who they think they are because they are too damn stupid to read.
Also founded by the same Muslim Brotherhood currently being kicked out of the Middle East by all the more sane leaders there.
Okay, I’ve given this a lot of thought. Well, 1.5 minutes of my life that I will never get back, anyway.
If this bitch thought she was being clever, she wasn’t. If it were plausible to shoot her skanky ass and bury her in a nameless grave, I’d help dig it.
But since we’re civilized, she should – in my taxpaying humble opinion – get life, no parole, and not leave that cell until she goes feet first.
I don’t get it. If someone has BOTH a stupid name AND a stupid face, how do they get a Top Secret clearance?
She wasn’t the only stupid person in the room.
Expanding some – in all honesty she is a cute little thing. (Southern speak)
I’ve seen “cute little things” get all sorts of breaks a guy or a plain woman will never get.
Not PC, but reality.
“…but reality”
we see what you did there
Pretty much the same shit HRC did with her server and email. Where are all the people that said HRC wasn’t treated any differently than the average citizen?
I’m waiting…yeah HRC didn’t get special treatment my ass.
More than likely Reality’s lawyers will argue equal treatment, or unequal treatment. i.e. HRC did the same thing and more so (1000+ counts at last check), yet was never charged, so why is Reality….. This is what happens when you pick and choose which laws you enforce and/or which person you charge or not.
Judging by her photo, I would guess that she doesn’t landscape her armpit hair. I don’t even want think of what is below the equator.
100 bucks says SARC would annihilate it
Look no further Hack Stone. It took a great deal of work but we now have evidence of her situation downstairs:
https://imgur.com/a/2mbTU
I told myself “don’t click on that!” but it was too late, I was booled.
Got ya!
Snuke in her snizz and all that.
Have you guys been looking at this Pluribus International Corporation? Talk about needing a massive eye put on it. That place comes off as about as shady as they come even without this traitor mentioned here. Just look at what that place is connected to. Total front to say the least.
yeah…like so many such “companies”. In existence only to loot the system.
Seriously look at their history and contracts. That is one of the most shady looking businesses I have ever seen anything about. Seriously a civilian contracted NSA office to monitor civilian activity through NSA systems?
Consider that for a moment. A CIVILIAN company being granted NSA operational system access to conduct contracted work on civilians. That place is… just wow…. get on that John… get on it. That place comes off as the golden ticket of FU-ville to me.
We don’t necessarily make the smartest decisions – it seems with government contracting it’s bottom-line, and filling a need.
I personally would rather see an investment in the federal work force; I asked once why we would pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a ten year contract (with certain contractor duty limitations) when we could hire civilians to do those jobs.
They told me in the long run it was cheaper because they weren’t paying for the contractors healthcare or retirement. Didn’t seem smart to me – but I never was a maths person.
Personally, I think Ms. Winner should be awarded a freaking medal for helping to expose Russia’s (albeit lame-ass) attempts to screw with our democracy. Realistically (pun partially intended lol), she should be and will be punished for breaking the law. And I agree with some of the above comments in that I think Trump and his posse are just inept and naïve, though I’d add over-confident and arrogant to that as well.
You telling us that you did not already know that Russia, the Soviets, or whatever they are calling themselves this week, have been spying on us for many decades?
OK. So how is your ignorance Trump’s fault? (Or fill in any previous president, member of Congress or other gubmint official’s name.)
Hi, Lars.
According to the Constitution, we’re supposed to be a republic, not a democracy, and yes, there is a very important difference between those two forms of government.
Wow… somebody is downing the same koolaid as Lars and Joe. Hate to break it to you, Toots, but the Russians/USSR have been screwing with us for years.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/14/ted-kennedy-made-secret-overtures-to-russia-to-prevent-ronald-reagans-re-election/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-left-longed-for-russian-political-interference
Pull you head out of your ass before you comment, doofus…
She can probably get off the hook if she uses the hildebeast’s defense: I was a little careless.
However, if that doesn’t work, hang the bitch.
Augusta, Georgia?
I used to attend church services there when I was stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia, taking the Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Operator (MOS 31L20) course and the Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair (MOS 31L20) course at the United States Army Southeastern Signal School (USASESS).
Boy, that was a long time ago!
From there, I went to Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, assigned to Company A, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion, 32d Army Air Defense Command (i.e., 32d AADCOM), where I was mostly TDY to Spangdahlem Air Force Base.
Does anyone here remember the story of “THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN”?
He was also employed by a government contractor, and held a “TOP SECRET” security clearance when he committed espionage and treason.
Great Movie.
Here’s one of the keys in catching Reality:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots