Reality Winner
American intelligence translator (born 1991)
Reality Winner
Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is a United States Air Force veteran, and a former National Security Agency (NSA) translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media, after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison. On June 3, 2017, while employed by the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation (de), Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections from the NSA to the news website The Intercept. The report indicated that Russian hackers accessed voter registration records in the United States with an email phishing operation. The Intercept's mishandling of the material exposed her as the source and led to her arrest. Twice denied bail, Winner was held at the...
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