Winner, meanwhile, was arrested in her home over the weekend.
"They should put handcuffs on a person like that and they should go to jail", thundered Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz. "She was not expecting any of this".
"This is very new, very important information", she said.
"I didn't know what company she worked for", Winner-Davis said. It appears that victor was such an incompetent amateur that there was no way for the publication to hide her involvement if they wanted the documents authenticated. Evidence from the documents was used to identify victor as the leaker, according to an Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit filed with the charges, and victor subsequently confessed.
- Victor is a federal contractor with top secret security clearance.
Victor is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation and has held Top Secret clearance at the NSA Georgia facility on Fort Gordon since the first part of February.
The document that victor allegedly leaked was a report detailing attempts by hackers from Russian military intelligence to penetrate a company that sells voter registration software as well as local election officials.
Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors ... executed cyber espionage operations against a named US company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions.
- Victor was a linguist in the US Air Force and speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari, her mother said. "She's got a great big heart", Davis said.
BEGNAUD: Winner was active on social media up until the day of her arrest tweeting under the pseudonym Sarah Winners. She "provided over 1,900 hours of enemy intelligence exploitation and assisted in geolocating 120 enemy combatants", the award stated.
After graduating in 2010, victor completed Air Force basic training in 2011, according to the Kingsville Record.
Titus Nichols said victor hopes to be released on bond Thursday. Still, her office was contacting county boards about potential breaches.
The news outlet provided the U.S. government agency with a copy of the document, according to the complaint.
Investigators said they narrowed down the suspects after they noticed crease marks on the leaked documents, which indicated "they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space".
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It was the first attack in Iran claimed by IS, which had threatened to step up its campaign in the country in recent months. The reports said Iran's security forces neutralized one terrorist, another one committed suicide.
The authenticity of the May 5 NSA document, which The Intercept said it obtained anonymously, could not be confirmed.
Reality Winner, the government contractor who leaked top-secret NSA intelligence detailing Russia's alleged interference, was arrested Saturday.
The government claims that victor downloaded and printed a top-secret NSA report, removed the printed version of the report from her employer's premises, and then mailed it to The Intercept, a highly regarded worldwide media outlet that exposes government wrongdoing.
"Winner further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation", the report said.
Victor hopes to be out on bond Thursday. The judge will determine whether to release her on bond. She did not enter a plea in her initial appearance Monday.
"And she felt like she needed to give them what they were asking for at the time", Winner's mother, Billie Winner-Davis, said. She was terrified of the situation and she did tell me also that she was afraid she was going to disappear. "She's going to be made an example of". For this act, she has been charged with violating the Espionage Act-a World War I era law meant for spies-which explicitly forbids the jury from hearing why the defendant acted, and bars them from deciding whether the outcome was to the public's benefit.
The court document said victor had email contact with a news website, which it did not name.
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25-year-old Reality Winner is charged with Gathering and Transmitting Defense Information.
Asked if victor had confessed, Nichols said, "If there is a confession, the government has not shown it to me".
If Winner was that careless with top-secret documents, she definitely deserved to be caught, no matter her intentions. "It's insane, but I don't know anything about it", said one, who declined to give his name.
Court documents accuse victor of mailing a classified report written on or about May 5 to an unnamed news organization.
She was a crypto-logic language analyst, meaning she identified foregn communications using signal or satellite equipment.
"Even if you take all the government allegations as true, it's clear she is neither a threat to public safety nor a flight risk", Snowden said in a statement.
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