Young woman in U.S. leak case faces day in court

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She has been jailed in neighboring Lincoln County since her arrest, according to a booking report released by the sheriff.

The charge, willful retention and transmission of national defense information, could bring victor up to 10 years in prison.

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, has been charged with sending the news media a classified government report about Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

A judge has scheduled a hearing Thursday for victor in U.S. District Court to determine whether to allow her to be released on bond pending trial.

Prosecutors successfully argued Thursday that 25-year-old Reality Winner might possess more stolen government secrets and that she might be a flight risk if released on bond. "I want people to keep in mind that she's a human being, that she did serve her country, that she would never hurt anyone", Winner's mother, Billie Winner-Davis said.

A White House spokeswoman said at a press briefing ahead of Winner's detention hearing that Trump believes anyone found guilty of unlawfully disclosing government secrets should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

According to a court document filed Tuesday evening, agents took four phones, two laptops and an Amazon tablet when Winner's home in the 1900 block of Battle Row was searched Saturday.

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The Intercept provided the USA government agency with a copy of the document, according to the complaint. Russian hackers attacked at least one US voting software supplier days before the 2016 presidential election, acco. She was arrested Saturday by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on charges that she made copies of a classified report containing top-secret information and mailed it to an online news organization.

But a United States judge at a hearing today will weigh the risks of freeing Reality Winner, a former air force linguist with an otherwise unblemished record, pending trial. She said that during one of her jailhouse phone calls, which were recorded, victor said she planned to "play that card: being pretty, white and cute".

"She was very scared", Winner's mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told Cooper. All of her electronic devices have been seized, she no longer has access to any National Security Agency information, and her passport was seized, he said.

Victor grew up in Kingsville, Texas, and enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from high school.

Though she was active on social media, victor doesn't appear to have discussed her work online. "Everybody in America knows what she looks like at this point". "Her words to me were that she was really scared that they would make her disappear", Davis said. "We don't know that yet and there's probably more information to come out", Tarver said.

"There's not much to comment on right now as far as whether there is a connection between my client and Intercept", Nichols said.

Solari cautioned that prosecutors were not trying to link victor to terrorism.

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