In case you missed it, NSA report leaker Reality Winner has been sentenced to 63 months in prison.
Reality Winner, who leaked a report on Russian hacking, has received what prosecutors call the longest federal sentence ever imposed for a media leak https://t.co/NKZQbMnowA pic.twitter.com/nnqtP1LkRr
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 23, 2018
More from CBS News:
A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors, who called it the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the media.
Reality Winner, 26, pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national security information. The former Air Force translator worked as a contractor at a National Security Agency’s office in Augusta, Georgia, when she printed a classified report and left the building with it tucked into her pantyhose. Winner told the FBI she mailed the document to an online news outlet.
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The judge’s sentence was in line with a plea agreement between Winner’s defense team and prosecutors, who recommended she serve five years and three months behind bars. Prosecutors said in a court filing that punishment would amount to “the longest sentence served by a federal defendant for an unauthorized disclosure to the media.”
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, for one, is beside himself. It’s “absolutely nuts,” he says:
Five years in prison for this is absolutely nuts. NUTS. https://t.co/DaZ6RAFaYe
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 23, 2018
NUTS, you guys.
Yes, nuts it wasn't longer.
— Dave's Not Here (@Weirddave0) August 23, 2018
Yes should have been more
— Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) August 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/kebejay/status/1032680174226030593
Must you be so transparent, Chris?
https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica/status/1032673832040116224
Refreshing when the enemies of the people readily identify themselves.
— JWF (@JammieWF) August 23, 2018