First arrest over Trump leaks: Intelligence contractor, 25, with top secret clearance is charged under espionage laws for ‘handing classified NSA report on Russian election hacking to website’
The Intercept on Monday published a top secret NSA document it got from an anonymous source
The document appeared to show Russian military intelligence conducted a spear phishing cyber attack on an election software company
The hackers then used the information to launch another attack to hit local governments with voter-registration linked attacks
The feds filed a criminal complaint Monday against Georgia a federal contractor, Reality Leigh Winner, 25, charging her with removing classified material from a government facility
She was charged with transmitting it to an ‘online news outlet’
The date attached to the top secret information referenced in the story and in the charging documents is the same
The FBI arrested the woman who leaked the document to the Intercept, NBC News reported
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor
DailyMail.com
5 June 2017
The federal government has leveled the first charges against an individual in connection with leaks related to the Russian election hacking.
The government has charged Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a Georgia intelligence contractor, with removing classified material from a government facility.
‘Winner is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia,’ according to a government criminal complaint.
‘She has been employed at the facility since on or about February 13, and has held a Top Secret clearance during that time.
‘On or about May 9, Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information from an intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained it.’
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