Leaker of Top Secret Report on Russian Hacking Sentenced to More Than 5 Years

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Former U.S. government intelligence contractor Reality Winner, who pleaded guilty to leaking a top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) report on Russian hacking, was sentenced to more than five years in prison by a federal judge on Aug. 23. Prosecutors said the sentence is the longest ever imposed for criminal leaking to the media.

Winner, 26, pleaded guilty in June. While working as an NSA contractor, she printed a top-secret report, smuggled it out of the agency’s Augusta, Georgia, building in her pantyhose, and mailed it to a news organization that was never publicly identified.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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