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2021-12-07 -Great Cultural Revolution

NSA leaker Reality Winner, 30, denies being a 'traitor' and says she passed classified report on Russian election interference to the media 'to serve the American people', in first interview since release from five-year sentence

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner sat down with CBS 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Sunday in first interview since June prison release

The Air Force vet was jailed in 2018 for leaking a classified report to the media during the 2016 and subsequently being prosecuted under the Espionage Act

During the interview, Winner, 30, asserted that she's not a traitor and only acted in 'service to the American people' when she leaked the classified documents

'I am not a traitor. I am not a spy. I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for,' Winner, now released and living in Texas, said

Whistleblower Winner revealed during the interview that she cut herself regularly in prison and developed a drug addiction

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 ....You'll understand if I'm less than sympathetic to her issues.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-07 06:08|| 2021-12-07 06:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I know she served her sentence, but isn't there a way we can exile such people from the Republic for ten years or more?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-07 06:28|| 2021-12-07 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 She tried to play politics with classified information.

And the odds her self-destructive behavior just started in prison are low. Committing treason, for example, is pretty self-destructive.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-07 06:44|| 2021-12-07 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 She goes by "Real," eh? Real Loser.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-07 06:45|| 2021-12-07 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Caught by those secret dots that every laser printer puts into every document.

Note that she went to prison while Hillary Clinton, who was guilty of much worse crimes regarding exposure of classified, secret, and top secret documents was not even prosecuted, much less convicted.

Posted by Clulet Splat5443 2021-12-07 07:34|| 2021-12-07 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 And Petraeus's career was ended for a similar, lesser lapse.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-07 07:38|| 2021-12-07 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 /\

I will always believe Petraeus was targeted for removal.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-07 07:52|| 2021-12-07 07:52|| Front Page Top

#8
Summary :
Our NSA collected and held data PRIOR to and DURING the 2016 US Election. That Russia was seriously attempting to meddle in US Elections.

Reality Winner having seen the data was not being released. Took it upon herself to ILLEGAL release the data publicly.

Questions:
Were ALL or any the candidates informed, or just those close to OBAMA?

Who was Russia trying to help?
Hillary or Trump or Sanders?

What role, if any, did Obama play in this?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-07 08:05|| 2021-12-07 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #7,I have no doubts Petraeus was targeted but he did make the classic mistake of forgetting to think with the head under his hat.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-07 15:05|| 2021-12-07 15:05|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ He made it easy for them. Not exactly Sun Tzu level stuff.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-07 15:09|| 2021-12-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

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