Democracy Now! (8/24/18)
NSA whistleblower Reality Winner was handed the longest sentence ever imposed in federal court for leaking government information to the media Thursday [8/23]. She is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Winner was arrested by FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia, on June 3, 2017, two days before The Intercept published an exposé revealing Russian military intelligence conducted a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software company just days before the U.S. presidential election. The exposé was based on a classified NSA report from May 5, 2017, that shows that the agency is convinced the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, was responsible for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
For more, we speak with Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof Press, and James Risen, The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent and former New York Times reporter.
Link to Story, Transcript and 20-Minute Video
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Mother Of NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner: My Daughter Was “Nailed to the Door” By The Trump Admin
Democracy Now! (8.24/18)
NSA whistleblower Reality Winner has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison—the longest sentence ever imposed in federal court for leaking government information to the media. Twenty-six-year-old Reality Winner is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Her sentencing Thursday came after she pleaded guilty in June to transmitting a top-secret document to a news organization. She had faced up to 10 years in prison. We speak with her mother, Billie Winner-Davis.
Link to Story, Transcript and 11-Minute Video
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What Happened To Courageous NSA Leaker Reality Winner?
A good panel discussion by The Young Turks about the courageous young woman Reality Winner, who will be serving the next four years in prisn for alerting America to the Russian hacking of our 2016 election.
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