A recent leak of classified NSA intelligence has prompted comparisons to Edward Snowden’s 2013 heroism, but the two circumstances are entirely different. While Snowden released information to alert the public about systemic criminal wrongdoing, Reality Leigh Winner did her leaking to satisfy a petty, partisan vendetta against President Donald Trump.
According to the crime report, Winner was contracted through the Pluribus International Corporation to work at a federal government facility in Georgia for several months. She used her Top Secret clearance to gain illicit access to privileged information, and then released it to The Intercept in an attempt to damage the President.
The leaked document reads as follows, “Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.”
Winner’s social media posts indicate her die-hard progressive political leanings. She supported Bernie Sanders for President, and bemoaned President Donald Trump for his environmental policies. She supported trendy liberal causes such as the Women’s March and Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline. She admitted culpability for her criminal acts to the FBI after being detained on June 3.
“Exceptional law enforcement efforts allowed us quickly to identify and arrest the defendant,” Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said.
Although this news may give President Trump’s critics some additional ammunition to fuel their Russia conspiracy theories, this leaked document is far from a smoking gun. As apart of Wikileaks’ Vault 7 disclosures, it was revealed that the CIA could mask their hacking operations to give the impression that another country perpetrated the attack. This casts a shadow of doubt on any intelligence indicating Russia or any other foreign government in illegal hacking operations.
And they say these people are vetted? NSA you have a huge problem, Yuge!!
Prosecute.
#LOCKHERTREASONOUSASSUP!
If only she changed her name to Hillary Clinton… She’d get off completely.
So this is a right thing for the wrong reason kind of angle that this writing is trying to push towards?
Except for the whole “right thing” part
Selective information was released that didn’t portray our current leader which happens to be a mid 90s Democrat in the best light, Especially when you start trying to continually draw conclusions between Russia and him. That being said I may be wrong but none of it was really earth shattering by any means. She worked in a place that has consequences for leaking information, she should’ve understood that she will have to deal with those after she did this, I don’t really see what the huge deal is. Now a reporter that writes about the government having the ability to hack your car to cause you to have a fatal accident because they want you assassinated and then for that same reporter to be killed in a car accident within days after releasing that information is a little bit more newsworthy.
I am always for weakening government
This treasonous traitor needs to go to jail!!!!!
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