by Jack
Feds arrest a leaker in alleged Russian election hacking…finally! Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. She was an employee of Pluribus International and held a top secret clearance.
Her alleged motive for leaking a top secret document on Russian hacking into the 2016 election was to damage Donald Trump because her candidate lost and she was outraged.
Ms. Winner had been a Bernie Sanders supporter. She now faces up to 10 years in federal prison, according to court documents filed by the Dept. of Justice. Her lawyer says, “Ms. Winner is anxious to put this behind her.” I bet she is! And to think Ms. Reality Winner faulted Trump for his bad judgement? Well, I hope she gets the max, 10 years of hard time is not enough in my opinion.
The TS document she leaked to the media contained no evidence that the hacking actually changed any of the vote tallies or in any way affected the election outcome; it only said that the Russians may have penetrated some high levels of the voting system.
In other leaker news, the FBI’s recent arrest of Harold T. Martin III, a
Maryland resident, has failed to solve the NSA hacking tools leak. The 51 year old Martin was charged with taking home secret paper documents and downloading reams of classified documents from his Top Secret job inside the NSA, and that he sold or distributed the material.
Martin was employed by Booze, Allen, Hamilton, the same employer that hired Edward Snowden who is now in self imposed exile in Russia.
The FBI is now looking into whether his home computer could have been hacked, although Martin has not yet been cleared of possibly selling the material in question. In any event, Martin was breaking the law by taking top secret material home, which is a felony. All federal employees and sub-contractors are warned repeatedly not to remove anything remotely classified from their workplace; this is considered a Cardinal sin that 99.9% of all NSA employees understand and respect.
Absent a profit motive, Martin’s only defense may be his gross negligence, bordering on criminal stupidity.
They arrested under the same statute cited in the Hillary Clinton case.
Her lawyer says, “Ms. Winner is anxious to put this behind her.”
Wow, more anti Trump mindset thinking of I can do what I please and just walk away…….forget it was only a treasonous act, she is entitled right, because of her beliefs and that she could not be at Berkley to protest.
If nothing else Trumps time in office will expose and catch more and more of these people. They need to be prosecuted to the fullest allowable extent of the law, if only to possibly prevent others from the same acts.
Commentary from elsewhere—
“But, pilgrims, none of that is important when compared to the massive intelligence defeat suffered by the US in that the GRU now know that US SIGINT has been reading their internal communications traffic for years.”
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2017/06/the-washington-post-and-nbc-news-have-confirmed-that-the-intercept-has-published-the-material-allegedly-leaked-by-winner-ver.html
Sorry I do not know much yet about the case but you repeat spin.
Caution the DNC trolls are everywhere.
Bernie people do not buy into the Russia hacked the election as why HRC lost. That is the DNC coverup mode. So that is a flag.
Also the name is a bit too ops related but hey who knows?
Also she did no less than Hillary did herself!
I am sorry but the media spin is on 11 and they never tell facts so I am suspicious of everything.
A few facts – The Awan Bros had secret security clearance for the DNC IT. Wasserman shultz is acting funny cause there may be files on that equipment she is so worried about.
These Awan’s are Pakistani? Question is are they ISI?
The Leaks, the timeline, the FBI Raids and the numerous deaths are very very suspicious.
Remember the vault 7 leak showed us how they can leave Russian footprints on these intercepted communications so nothing can be for sure.
This may relate to the DNC coverup, who knows right now
Look the USA interferes in others elections and Russia certainly did hack somewhere….. Russia did not have a influence on the results the USA cheating on all sides is massive. But that is the impeachment model I hear
But do not fall for all media spin the DNC is in a major coverup in these matters as well.
Remember when they tried to say Bernie hacked the HRC campaign, blocked him, then had to say sorry later?
The NPG Van software had a 4 hour window when the Awans manipulated the DNC voting records in the program.
This is one big mess.
If I have time I will put together a timeline of Known, Vetted facts and it will look suspicious to you too.
And Trump has his own corruption as well.
We are in big trouble