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| Reality Winner pleads guilty to leaking classified report to news outlet | Reality Winner pleads guilty to leaking classified report to news outlet |
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| A woman accused of leaking US secrets to a news outlet pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Georgia. | A woman accused of leaking US secrets to a news outlet pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Georgia. |
| Reality Winner, 26, entered her guilty plea after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors that calls for her to serve five years and three months behind bars, news outlets reported. A judge will sentence her later. | Reality Winner, 26, entered her guilty plea after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors that calls for her to serve five years and three months behind bars, news outlets reported. A judge will sentence her later. |
| Reality Winner: NSA contractor and environmentalist repulsed by Trump | Reality Winner: NSA contractor and environmentalist repulsed by Trump |
| “All of these actions I did willfully, meaning I did them of my own free will,” she told the court, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. | “All of these actions I did willfully, meaning I did them of my own free will,” she told the court, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. |
| Winner has been held without bail since she was arrested in June 2017 and charged under the Espionage Act. Her trial had been set to start 15 October. | Winner has been held without bail since she was arrested in June 2017 and charged under the Espionage Act. Her trial had been set to start 15 October. |
| She is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Arabic and Farsi and had a top-secret security clearance. She worked for the national security contractor Pluribus International at Fort Gordon in Georgia when she was charged in June 2017 with copying a classified US report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization. | She is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Arabic and Farsi and had a top-secret security clearance. She worked for the national security contractor Pluribus International at Fort Gordon in Georgia when she was charged in June 2017 with copying a classified US report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization. |
| The justice department announced Winner’s arrest on the same day the Intercept, an online news outlet, reported it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report suggesting Russian hackers attacked a US voting software supplier before the 2016 presidential election. | The justice department announced Winner’s arrest on the same day the Intercept, an online news outlet, reported it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report suggesting Russian hackers attacked a US voting software supplier before the 2016 presidential election. |
| The NSA report was dated 5 May, the same as the document Winner was accused of leaking. | The NSA report was dated 5 May, the same as the document Winner was accused of leaking. |
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