Puh-LEEZE! Chris Hayes takes SLEDGEHAMMER to his journo mask with this take on Reality Winner

Sarah D | 3:22 PM on August 23, 2018

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.

…

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.”