Posted on 06/29/2017 1:27:33 PM PDT by BBell
AUGUSTA, Georgia (CNN) — Among the possible evidence in the government's case against former federal contractor Reality Winner is a notebook with information handwritten in Farsi, prosecutors said in court Tuesday.
The writing is being translated, federal prosecutors told a judge at a hearing.
Winner, who is accused on one count of taking classified information home from work and leaking it to a media outlet, remains in jail awaiting an anticipated October 23 trial.
She has pleaded not guilty.
Winner was a linguist while in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016 and speaks Farsi, Dari and Pashto, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, has said.
The notebook in question came from her workspace at Pluribus International Corp. in Augusta, prosecutors said. It is part of a collection of material in the case beyond the documents allegedly leaked to the Intercept, an online news outlet.
Authorities are also examining two laptops, a tablet and four cellphones seized from Winner's home in Augusta, and are reviewing an interview she gave the FBI before her arrest earlier this month.
The 25-year-old federal contractor was charged with leaking information regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack to The Intercept.
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Just Hillary’s cookie recipes translated into Farsi. Nothing to see here, move along.
I’m not sure it still works this way but the military used to pick up a talent for languages on the ASVAB. There was more testing to confirm the talent/ability to learn languages.
The school is long... 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, often for a year or longer (which gives plenty of time for the required background check) Some related languages are taught at the same time. I would guess Reality’s three languages fall in that category.
There is a really high wash out rate just because of failure to learn the language, but people are also kicked out if they fail to get their security clearance.
Linguists used to be thought of as some of the brightest people in the military. Linguists like Reality hurt that reputation!
No. LOL
I literally cannot read a thing my brother writes and I dont know why he bothers.
LOL, well I wasn’t sure.
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