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On this day June 03, 2017

NSA contractor Reality Winner arrested

Reality Winner
Released
Reality Winner is a former U.S intelligence contractor who in 2017 leaked a classified intelligence report to the news media outlet The Intercept that detailed Russian interference in the 2016 United...
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FBI agents arrested Reality Winner at her Augusta, Georgia home for mailing a classified report on Russian election interference to The Intercept. Denied bail, she pleaded guilty and received 63 months — at the time the longest federal sentence ever imposed for leaking to the press.

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