DoJ charges Reality Leigh Winner w/ removing classified material

[irpat54]

& mailing it to a news outlet.

outstanding!!!

JUSTICE NEWS

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, June 5, 2017
Federal Government Contractor in Georgia Charged With Removing and Mailing Classified Materials to a News Outlet

A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e).

Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, and appeared in federal court in Augusta this afternoon.

“Exceptional law enforcement efforts allowed us quickly to identify and arrest the defendant,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “Releasing classified material without authorization threatens our nation’s security and undermines public faith in government. People who are trusted with classified information and pledge to protect it must be held accountable when they violate that obligation.”

According to the allegations contained in the criminal complaint:

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.

Once investigative efforts identified Winner as a suspect, the FBI obtained and executed a search warrant at her residence. According to the complaint, Winner agreed to talk with agents during the execution of the warrant. 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.

An individual charged by criminal complaint is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.

The prosecution is being handled by Trial Attorney Julie A. Edelstein of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia. The investigation is being conducted by the FBI.

2017 06 05 Winner Criminal Complaint Form

2017 06 05 Winner Criminal Complaint Affidavit


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...materials-news

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[Tennessee Top]

And she wasn't even trading these secrets for sex? I'm sure she'll say it was her patriotic duty to blow the whistle on the Government ala Edward Snowden.

[Kegler300]

Need to make an example of this leaker.

[irpat54]

They definitely need to run this witch through the ringer

[advanced]

Being a law abiding man we shouldn't be wishing harm to come to her. Remember, she is entitled to a fair trial before we hang her.

[irpat54]

Being a law abiding man we shouldn't be wishing harm to come to her. Remember, she is entitled to a fair trial before we hang her.

ROFL, oh of course you are exactly right,, my Bad,,

[oldtop]

started on 02/13, and by 05/09 she's stealing and leaking classified info???? Seems to me, this SPY hired on with the intent to do EXACTLY what she did, which IMHO classifies her as a SPY.... she should be treated as such, tried, convicted, and EXECUTED, just like the Rosenbergs were back in the 1950's.... it surely appears that communists are no longer in hiding, they are out in the open and brazen about what they do.... but what can we expect when half of our politicians are communists themselves.... take us over from within... indeed.....

[irpat54]

started on 02/13, and by 05/09 she's stealing and leaking classified info???? Seems to me, this SPY hired on with the intent to do EXACTLY what she did, which IMHO classifies her as a SPY.... she should be treated as such, tried, convicted, and EXECUTED, just like the Rosenbergs were back in the 1950's.... it surely appears that communists are no longer in hiding, they are out in the open and brazen about what they do.... but what can we expect when half of our politicians are communists themselves.... take us over from within... indeed.....

And the company that hired her should be looked into in depth, they either didn't do a very good job in the background checking her or are in sympathy with her.

[Kurt Loadeater]

Well she had a Top Secret, so apparently the government didn't do a good job. No company's background checks are as in depth as a TS.

[irpat54]

Well she had a Top Secret, so apparently the government didn't do a good job. No company's background checks are as in depth as a TS.

Very true, that should be given a closer look, as well..

[FoxtrotOscar]

Politicians don't even undergo a thorough background investigation ... Once elected they are simply vetted by a senior politician and are considered good to go..

That's exactly how Pelosi got the petulant little man boy "0" into office, she was the one that vetted his background for office...

[oldtop]

Well she had a Top Secret, so apparently the government didn't do a good job. No company's background checks are as in depth as a TS.

the REAL question is "who did the background investigation" was it the US Government, or was it the company she worked for...... some of these civilian contractors do their own background checks, and Uncle Sugar just accepts them as good... background checks like those that MILITARY personnel are subjected to are much more thorough, but even then, some "bad apples" slip through the cracks.....

[oldtop]

[SIZE=3]Politicians don't even undergo a thorough background investigation ... Once elected they are simply vetted by a senior politician and are considered good to go..

That's exactly how Pelosi got the petulant little man boy "0" into office, she was the one that vetted his background for office...[/SIZE]

Really!!!! SHE was the one that "vetted" Obozo??? No WONDER he was able to pull off what he did, SHE is surpassed in stupidity only by the likes of Maxine Watters, Dianne Fienstein, Sheila Jackson Lee, and the "Indian Princess" wannabee....

[Kurt Loadeater]

I've never heard of company's doing their own TS background checks. Everyone has to go through OPM wherever I've worked to fill out their SF86.

[oldtop]

The wannabe "Snowden" successor has been denied bail, looks like she'll just have to get used to prison food for a while, unless her lawyers can find some liberal judge to grant her bail....