The Military Times offers a
piece on accused NSA leaker Reality Winner.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A young woman
charged with leaking U.S. secrets to a news organization told FBI agents she
was frustrated with her job as a government contractor when she tucked a
classified report into her pantyhose and smuggled it out of a National Security
Agency office in Georgia, according to court records.
Prosecutors are using Reality
Winner’s own words against her as they urge a federal judge to keep the former
Air Force translator jailed until her trial. In a court filing Wednesday,
prosecutors attached a 77-page transcript of Winner’s interview with FBI agents
before her arrest in June.
“Yeah, I screwed up royally,”
Winner, 25, told the agents in a transcript that makes public the details of
her confession, which prosecutors have alluded to in prior court hearings.
In their latest filing
Wednesday, prosecutors also included a partial transcript of a Facebook chat
between Winner and her sister in February.
“Look, I only say I hate
America like 3 times a day,” Winner wrote. “I’m no radical. It’s mostly just
about Americans obsession with air conditioning.”
Her sister asked: “But you
don’t actually hate America, right?”
Winner replied: “I mean yeah
I do it’s literally the worst thing to happen on the planet. We invented
capitalism the downfall of the environment.”
Winner faces up to 10 years
in federal prison if she’s convicted on charges that she printed a classified
U.S. report and mailed it to an online news outlet.
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