A classic Anonymous Bites Back broadcast about the case of Reality Winner. With special guests Billie Winner-Davis and Kevin Gosztola. We discuss all about the case of Reality and how she was locked up.
Back story:
Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is an American former intelligence specialist. In 2018, she was convicted of "removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet" and given the longest sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release of government information to the media.
The material in question originated with the National Security Agency (NSA).
On June 3, 2017, while employed by the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation, Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections to the news website The Intercept. The report indicated that Russian hackers accessed voter registration rolls in the U.S. with an email phishing operation, though it was unclear whether any changes had been made.
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