Posted on 06/08/2017 6:34:09 PM PDT by markomalley
Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking classified information about Russian hacking to the media, wrote that she wanted to "burn the White House down" in notes confiscated from her home during a raid, federal prosecutors said in court today.
Winner pleaded not guilty to a charge of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information” this afternoon in federal court in Augusta, Georgia. She was arrested at her Georgia home on June 3 and charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet.
Winner was a contractor with top-secret clearance when she allegedly leaked a classified report about Russian election interference to the online publication The Intercept. The Department of Justice said she printed and improperly removed the classified information on May 9 and then mailed it a few days later.
At the time, Winner was working at an NSA outpost, while technically employed by a government contractor called Pluribus International Corporation.
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“They said in recorded jailhouse calls, she told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media— as someone who was scared she’d disappear from an interrogation room in her Augusta home after Saturday’s raid.
Prosecutors said a phone call to her sister expressed her confidence in how to play the court during her bond hearing.
“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.”
A child playing an adult game.
Like sitting at the poker table in vegas for the first time, not knowing you’re surrounded by pros.
Well why not? This is what our leaders have brought us to, this divisive melt down we’re witnessing.
Look at our leaders, and then ask yourself why the citizens would be loyal to our nation?
Our leaders sell us out, and more importantly our nation out one more step every day.
If there’s a divisive group that pops up like the BLM group, they herald them. They herald the crap going on at our universities.
It couldn’t be more clear, that this is exactly what they wanted.
Then can’t wait until martial law has to be declared in some or all of our cities.
They couldn’t have set this up more effectively.
Gee, I wonder why she is not married....
Crush her and send a message.
And no, she’s neither cute nor pretty.
At least she didn’t belong to the TEA Party, have a poster of Sarah Palin hanging on the wall, or fly a “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag.
That must be how she qualified for a Top Secret clearance.
/sarcasm off
That Madonna meme is catchy.
This one hates all of America, except the Bernies.
And she wanted to join the TALIBAN..how the hell did someone like this get SECURITY CLEARANCE!!!
Well then, add conspiracy to commit assassination then.
Bye! Enjoying your Win of Reality, Leigh?
You mean to tell me she did not realize that the jail phones are “bugged”. She is digging a deeper hole at every turn.
[“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister.]
That must be in some alternate reality, winner.
[If there’s a divisive group that pops up like the BLM group, they herald them.
Then can’t wait until martial law has to be declared in some or all of our cities.]
Sounds like a conspiracy theory. But there’s nothing to disprove your assertions. It would seem that those who feed the insurgency face no sanction. coughSoroscough
There was a defendant in a recent trial that was given the maximum sentence (which may have been LWOP) because the recordings of his jailhouse phone calls were played in court during the sentencing phase of the trial.
In the recordings, the defendant was making statements of a similar nature to these. The judge kept up an appearance of outward calm, but his sentence showed that he was outraged.
I wish I could remember the matter, it was shown on YouTube. It was a violent crime, IIRC.
LMAO! Poor thing has such low self esteem!
Because the United States Government is a malevolent, evil, corrupt, unfunny, joke.
Hillary Clinton did far far worse. Now go arrest her, too.
Where was this SJW radicalized? I’d like to know more about her parents. Disgraceful to have such a mind with access to top secret information. The damage the Obama tone set for 8 years continues to astound.
And Judge Napolitano is talking about her as though her actions are heroic. Disappointed in the Judge. This little twit isn’t some American heroine saving the republic - she’s an impressionable Bernie brat with delusions of grandeur. And a criminal. She and fellow leaker Comey should form a club while doing time
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