Reality Winner

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Reality Leigh Winner (born December 1991 in Texas ) is an American linguist .

After she, as a whistleblower, forwarded intelligence information on Russia's influence on the US election campaign in 2016 to the news website The Intercept , she was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison in August 2018.

biography

Reality Leigh Winner grew up in Kingsville, Texas. She served in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016, most recently with the rank of Senior Airman as a cryptological language analyst . She received the Air Force Commendation Medal for her services, which included 1900 working hours in the exploitation of intelligence information and the geo- targeting of 120 enemy combatants . She speaks her English mother tongue Farsi , Dari and Pashto and is known as Yoga - Trainer been active.

Most recently she worked as a linguist for Pluribus International Corporation , which in turn acts as an information service provider for the National Security Agency (NSA) , the US government .

As of February 13, 2017, she was as government officials with top-secret - released at a news agency in Georgia used.

Before and after the US presidential election in 2016, Winner criticized Donald Trump several times on Facebook and Twitter . She commented on Trump's entry into the White House associated with the presidency as "the most dangerous thing for the United States".

Leak, investigation and conviction

On June 5, 2017, two days after the arrest, The Intercept published an article based on intelligence from the NSA about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election . While the document is classified as "Secret", a whistle-blower attorney believes it contains no revelations of fraud, waste, or abuse, or any information about any illegal act by the US government.

The printed documents that were leaked to The Intercept were scanned there and published as PDF files. However, the scan still contained color printer marks . Readers discovered the markings shortly after publication, and Vice magazine interpreted a statement from the FBI to mean that Winner would have given himself away through these markings. The Washington Post did not commit itself, but relied on experts who believed it was the easiest way to find who would have printed the document.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange publicly solicited support for the detainees and, with the award of US $ 10,000, solicited clues to identify an intercept journalist who was believed to be helping with the investigation.

In addition to Winner's social media activities, the public prosecutor's office cited seized notes and a search engine request from 2016 in which Winner is said to have inquired about the function of security systems in high-security computers at the arrest review date on June 8, 2017. The court ruled that, based on a confession to the FBI and the evidence presented, without the option of being released on bail, Winner must be held pending trial.

On August 23, 2018, Winner was sentenced to 63 months in prison by an Augusta , Georgia court.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Swaine: NSA contractor Reality Winner accused of leaking file on Russia election hacking. In: The Guardian . June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ Madison Park, CNN: What we know about Reality Winner. In: KVIA. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Charlie Savage: Intelligence Contractor Is Charged in First Leak Case Under Trump. In: The New York Times . June 5, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b " Who is Reality Winner? Accused leaker wanted to 'resist' Trump. In: Fox News. June 6, 2017, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Donie O'Sullivan: Accused leaker Reality Winner called Trump an 'orange fascist' on Twitter. In: CNN. June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Sam Biddle, Ryan Grim: Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election. In: The Intercept. June 5, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  7. ^ "Reality Winner isn't a whistleblower - or a victim of Trump's war on leaks" Washington Post, June 8, 2017
  8. ↑ a b c Derek Hawkins: How tech sleuths cracked the mysterious code that turns your printer into a spying tool. In: Washington Post . June 9, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  9. ^ David Gilbert: NSA leak suspect was ratted out by an office printer. In: Vice News . June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  10. ↑ WikiLeaks offers $ 10,000 to get Intercept reporter fired. In: The Hill . June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Wikileaks' Julian Assange tweets support for NSA 'whistleblower' Reality Leigh Winner. In: Daily Express . June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  12. ^ Alan Blinder, "NSA Contractor May Have Mishandled Secrets Before, Prosecutor Says," New York Times June 8, 2017
  13. ↑ FAZ.NET with epd: NSA whistleblower sentenced to imprisonment. In: FAZ.net . August 24, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Winner, reality
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winner, Reality Leigh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Texas