Posted on 07/30/2022 12:32:41 PM PDT by lowbridge
A former National Security Agency contractor jailed for leaking a document about Russian hacking in the 2016 election has spoken out about her experiences, insisting that she is "not a traitor."
Reality Winner, now 30, was arrested in 2017 and admitted to taking classified intelligence documents that same year.
She was accused of mailing top-secret NSA information to the media outlet The Intercept. The classified document detailed Russian government efforts to hack a Florida-based US voting software supplier.
In 2018, Winner was sentenced to more than five years in prison. She was released in June 2021 for good behavior.
Speaking to CBS, Winner said she thought something was amiss after watching then President Donald Trump attempt to sow doubt about whether Russia had influenced the 2016 election.
"I just kept thinking, 'My God, somebody needs to step forward and put this right. Somebody,'" Winner told the outlet.
"I knew it was secret. But I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people. And at that point in time, it felt like they were being led astray," she added.
Winner told CBS that she "meant no harm and "did not betray" the US' "sources and methods" of obtaining intelligence by leaking the document.
"It only filled in a question mark that was tearing our country in half in May 2017," Winner said.
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She was hired for her new job at NSA in Feb. 2017, only weeks after Trump was inaugurated, leaked secret documents about Russian hacking in May, and was arrested in June.
Yes, Reality Winner is her real name.
I never thought Winner was smart enough to be a traitor. She always impressed me as just another stupid ditz.
“I’m not a traitor”
I don’t believe she was charged with or convicted of treason.
If Jane Fonda was not tried for treason, I don’t believe anyone ever will be again.
That’s not her birth name and she should have been disqualified for a security clearance based on that bit of nutbaggery alone.
It is the Trump administration when the DOJ is controlled by Republicans. It is the US DOJ when Biden is in charge.
Sounds like a possible 2020 election fraud argument. Except, people don't wanna hear it, except to throw her in jail or attack her.
I am surprised that it took Obama/Biden's DOJ five months to arrange to free one of their heroes.
And the J6 political prisoners can't even get proper food, proper medicine nor legal advice.
She will probably "settle" out of court on a wrongful dismissal action and get full back pay, damages and a full federal pension.
Reality Loser.
It’s on American citizens. If the deep state can take out Epstein, for one example, then patriots should not be vexed by evil such as her.
The other side has joined the side it’s on. Every move is animated hate.. it’s why they are prevailing.
Wrong. She’s got the WH’s new definition of traitor to prove it.
Looked a weirdo with bizzaro hair on the commercial should have stayed in jail
Jailed by the trump administration, those fiends.
If Jane Fonda was not tried for treason, I don’t believe anyone ever will be again.
However, the left is quite comfortable with changing definitions and turning things on their heads, so I suspect that there may well be treason trails in the future, but they won’t be for acts we consider to be treasonous.
Put her back in jail!
“I knew it was secret. But I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people. And at that point in time, it felt like they were being led astray,” she added.
“I just kept thinking, ‘My God, somebody needs to step forward and put this right.”
“It only filled in a question mark that was tearing our country in half in May 2017,” Winner said.
So using her logic... She can make her own judgement and decide what is of public interest and make what is classified, made public by her own free will. She felt righteous to ignore classification of secured documents by simply believing her virtue is above the law or above her job authority, allowing her to subvert/usurp any contractual obligations and/or sworn allegiance to obey the rules, duties and responsibilities of her position???
LOL!
Name change. Reality LOSER. 😲✌
Damn we think alike. 😂✌
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