Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner accepted a guilty plea agreement on Tuesday. For one count of espionage, Winner faces 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release. She originally faced ten years in prison. Final sentencing is yet to come. Winner, 26, is a former Air Force linguist who then worked as a contractor for the NSA in Georgia where she printed out classified material about the Russian government’s attempts at interference in U.S. elections and mailed the file to a reporter at The Intercept. The report was published on June 5, 2017. Winner had already been arrested two days earlier. “All of these actions I did willfully, meaning I did them of my own free will,” she said at Tuesday’s hearing. Winner’s lawyers and family pointed to the Espionage Act, a century-old piece of legislation routinely criticized as draconian, as the reason she pleaded guilty on Tuesday. “The […]
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