'I want to burn the White House down': NSA leaker Reality Winner,

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Reality Winner portrayed little emotion in court Thursday as she was denied bond in her federal espionage case after the government alleged that she may have stolen other top secret information and poses an ongoing risk to national security. The Air Force veteran, 25, is accused of mailing a classified report on a Russian military intelligence cyber-attack in 2016 to a news website. She entered a plea of not guilty before Judge Brian K. Epps at U.S. District Court in downtown Augusta, Georgia on Thursday afternoon after she was charged with a single count of 'willful retention and transmission of national defense information'. The prosecution made their case for Winner to be detained based on evidence that one prosecutor called ‘downright frightening’. Authorities alleged that Winner praised the Taliban, may have stolen more top secret information and that she planned to play ‘the pretty, white girl’ card in court. She is pictured left, main and right after the hearing on Thursday, while her parents are pictured inset.

 

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[h=1]'I want to burn the White House down': Accused NSA leaker Reality Winner is DENIED bail as prosecutors claim she wanted to pledge her allegiance to the Taliban and planned to play the 'pretty, white girl' card in court[/h]

• She is charged with 'willful retention and transmission of defense information'
• The 25-year-old was indicted by a federal grand jury and a judge ordered her to be detained until her trial
• Winner faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines if she's found guilty
• Indictment states she worked with top-secret clearance at government agency
• Government claims they found handwritten notes at Winner's home which appeared to sympathize with Osama bin Laden and other terrorists
• In one note, Winner allegedly wrote: 'I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan'

 

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Reality Winner portrayed little emotion in court Thursday as she was denied bond in her federal espionage case after the government alleged that she may have stolen other top secret information and poses an ongoing risk to national security.
The Air Force veteran, 25, is accused of mailing a classified report on a Russian military intelligence cyber-attack in 2016 to a news website.
She entered a plea of not guilty before Judge Brian K. Epps at U.S. District Court in downtown Augusta, Georgia on Thursday afternoon after she was charged with a single count of 'willful retention and transmission of national defense information'.
Winner was brought into court, in an orange jumpsuit with her hair braided in a top knot, by two federal marshalls. Her hands were cuffed behind her back and she appeared to stand to attention when addressed by the judge.
She spoke only to respond: 'Yes, your honor' in a soft voice.
The prosecution made their case for Winner to be detained based on evidence that one prosecutor called 'downright frightening'.
The prosecution alleged that Winner is 'extremely intelligent' and may have removed information from a 'Top Secret computer on a USB drive' while she was on active duty and stated that the thumb drive has not been located.

 

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Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman accused of leaking classified documents to a news outlet, reportedly wanted to burn the White House down. She is pictured above in Augusta, Georgia after appearing before a judge on Thursday

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The former Air Force veteran appeared stoic and calm as Judge Brian K Epps made the ruling at U.S. District Court

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Winner was ordered to be detained on Thursday until she faces trial on federal espionage charges after she allegedly mailed a classified report to a news website

 

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The prosecution made their case for Winner to be detailed based on the 'downright frightening' allegations that she may have other documents to release and had also inserted a thumb drive into a top secret computer while she was still an active member of the Air Force

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The government also claimed that they had found handwritten notes at Winner's home which appeared to sympathize with Osama bin Laden and other terrorists along with the statement: 'I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan.'

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The government is also concerned about what other intelligence Winner (above in the van) possesses as she told her mother in a recorded phone conversation from prison that she 'screwed up' over those 'documents'

The government is also concerned about what other intelligence Winner possesses as she told her mother in a recorded phone conversation from prison that she 'screwed up' over those 'documents'.
The prosecution stated that Winner had a fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism. The government claimed that they had found handwritten notes during a search at Winner's home which appeared to sympathize with Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.
Authorities claim another handwritten statement found during a search of Winner's home allegedly read: 'I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan.'
Prosecutors said in recorded jailhouse calls that Winner told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media.
They also said in a phone call she made to her sister that she was confident in how to 'play the court' during her bond hearing.
'I'm pretty, white and cute,' she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.
In a recorded prison call, Winner also reportedly asked her mother to transfer $30,000 out of her bank account and instructed her what to say to the press.
Winner's mother, Billie Winner-Davis, and stepfather, Gary Davis, sat directly behind her in court along with their friend, Anne Demasi.

Prosecutors said in recorded jailhouse calls that Winner told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media. Above her parents Billie Winner-Davis (left) and Gary Davis (center) are pictured entering the court on Thursday

 

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Winner's mother, Billie Winner-Davis (left), and stepfather, Gary Davis (center), sat directly behind her in court

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Both took the stand in her defense telling the court that their daughter had never been in trouble and had served her country for six years

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Winner's defense attorney Titus Nichols told the court that the government was 'scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill' in the case. Above her attorneys are pictured entering the court house in August on Thursday

Both her mother and stepfather took the stand in her defense telling the court that their daughter had never been in trouble and had served her country for six years.
Winner-Davis testified for a half-hour on her daughter’s behalf and said that she ‘loved that language’ when asked by the prosecution about Winner’s ability to speak Farsi, Pashto and Dari as part of her linguist career in the U.S. Air Force.
Davis said he was caught off-guard by the allegations made against his stepdaughter but said he had 'no fear' about putting up the family's home in Kingsville, Texas and 20 acres of land for her bond.
'She's a wonderful girl,' he said.
Winner's defense attorney Titus Nichols told the court that the government was 'scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill' in the case and argued that she should be released on bail because she had no history of violence and that they government had produced no evidence, noting that Winner 'had been interrogated by 10 law enforcement officers in her home'.
Nichols said she was no threat to the community and never went AWOL during her six year's military service from which she was honorably discharged.
The government painted a darker picture of the defendant as someone who they suggested had 'two faces' – one as a nice person who loved dogs and yoga and the other as someone who seemed motivated to harm the government.
'We don't know how much more she knows and can remember,' the prosecution said. 'She's extremely intelligent.'

 

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The government painted a darker picture of the defendant as someone who they suggested had 'two faces' – one as a nice person who loved dogs and yoga and the other as someone who seemed motivated to harm the government. Winner is pictured above in a court room sketch

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The prosecution said: 'We don't know how much more she knows and can remember.She's extremely intelligent.' Winner (center) is pictured above in a court room sketch

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The 25-year-old faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, as well as a further three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment. Winner is pictured above in a court room sketch

The 25-year-old faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, as well as a further three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment.
Prosecutors said on Thursday they may bring more charges against Winner and gave further details of the alleged confession and evidence they gathered at her home on Saturday when a search warrant was executed and she was arrested.
Investigators retrieved four cellphones, two laptops and tablet from Winner's home along with handwritten notebooks.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari told the judge that Winner had written a notebook, along with multiple doodles of her signature, the statement: 'I want to burn the White House down… find somewhere in Kurdistan to live. Haha!'
The pages also included notes on how to install Tor Browser on a computer which allows the Dark Web to be accessed and notes on how to unlock a cellphone and untie it from the provider, 'creating a single-use burner account,' the prosecution said.
Winner's notes allegedly contained sympathetic statements on Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and referenced going to live in a number of countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and Mexico. Solari said that Winner had taken a three-day trip to Belize last month and had researched travelling from Atlanta to Tel Aviv in September 2017.
Solari also said that in recorded conversations from jail, Winner had told her mother to 'play that angle' with the press that she had been afraid for her life when FBI agents arrested her at her home. In a separate call she also told her sister that she would 'go out and play the cute, blonde white girl. Braid my hair, going to cry.'
In another recorded call, she reportedly said: 'Go nuclear with the press – because that's how Manning got out' apparently in reference to the recent release of military intelligence leaker, Chelsea Manning.

 

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She also allegedly pledged her allegiance to the Taliban. Prosecutors said in recorded jailhouse calls that Winner told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media

Winner (left and right) was charged with a single count of 'willful retention and transmission of national defense information'

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The six-page indictment states Winner (pictured) worked at a government agency from February to June in Georgia. During that time she had top-secret security clearance

In making his decision, Judge Epps said he was worried about the missing USB drive that Winner had inserted into a government computer along with her notes and terrorists.
'Whether that's a joke or not, it still concerns me,' he said.
Solari said that the prosecution was not trying to link the veteran to terrorism: 'The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer,' Solari told the judge.
Solari detailed for the court the circumstances of Winner's arrest by FBI agents. She said that one June 3, 2017, agents approached the defendant and she consented to the search, first taking her care of her cat and dog and swapping stories with the agents about their respective jobs.
She asked whether the agents were doing to take her phone as 'she was teaching yoga tomorrow and would like to have it'.
Solari said that Winner admitted to the agents that she had accessed and printed a classified document, stored it in her car for a few days and then mailed from Augusta to a news agency 'she admired'.
'She said she was mad about what she had seen in the media and wanted to set it right', Solari told the court.
Following the hearing, Winner's parents left court in the company of her lawyers and declined to comment to the media.
The six-page indictment states Winner worked at a government agency from February to June in Georgia. During that time she had top-secret security clearance.
It then states Winner printed on May 9 a report from four days earlier, which focused on: 'intelligence activities by a foreign government directed at targets within the United States'.
The FBI alleges Winner, who was in the Air Force for six years, was working as a government contractor last month when she copied a classified intelligence report containing top-secret information and mailed it to a reporter at The Intercept.
The website published a report on Monday based off a top secret NSA document that allegedly revealed efforts by Russian military intelligence to conduct a spear phishing cyber attack on a company and on local voter registration.
'Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors… executed cyber espionage operations against a named US company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions,' according to the document the Intercept published.

 

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'The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to… launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting US local government organizations.'
The hearing on Thursday came after Winner's parents insisted their daughter is not a flight risk and should be released from jail before her trial.
Billie Winner-Davis said Wednesday she fears prosecutors will try to make an example of her daughter to show that they're not 'going to tolerate leakers.'
Gary Davis said his stepdaughter isn't a flight risk. He says she has never run away from anything and there's no reason to hold her.
Winner grew up in Kingsville, Texas, and enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from high school.
Davis said she became a linguist, speaking Arabic and Farsi, and spent four years assigned to the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. During that time, he said, Winner provided real-time translation to Americans conducting field missions.
Davis said she received a commendation for aiding in the deaths of more than 100 enemy combatants and more than 250 enemy captures.
'If she made this mistake,' Davis said, referring to the leaked documents, 'it needs to be balanced against what she has done in the past and how she has served this country.'
Neither prosecutors nor Winner's parents have identified the government agency where she worked at the time of her arrest. But the NSA has operated a $286 million complex in Augusta since 2012.
Winner has been jailed in neighboring Lincoln County since her arrest, according to a booking report released by the sheriff.

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Read more:

• Grand jury indicts Augusta contractor in NSA leak case

 

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Pretty scary that someone like this idiot can even work at the NSA, much less have a clearance!

 

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There you have it folks, the mindset of the Modern Progressive (regressive) Liberal.

 

[Willie99]

She represents the liberal democrats very well, full of anger and hate and idiocy

 

[HamGlaze]

She represents the liberal democrats very well, full of anger and hate and idiocy

They can't hold themselves in anymore. God Bless the U.S.A!

 

[flashmo]

I hope they throw the book at that snowflake piece of shit

 

[bilbal]

Winner should just claim that she is simply far too dumb to understand what she was doing was a felony. It worked like a charm for HiLIARy.

 

[HamGlaze]

Winner should just claim that she is simply far too dumb to understand what she was doing was a felony. It worked like a charm for HiLIARy.

That's a good point because if you think about it, being a self proclaimed dumb ass liberal should in itself get one off on the grounds of insanity.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Crooked Hillary has done far worse!

LOCK HER UP!

 

[ScottL]

"planned to play the 'pretty, white girl' card in court"

The chick walking to court alongside the defendant's parents in post #6 might be able to pull that off. But not this clueless wildabeast. Even Fletcher would turn her dow....eh, maybe not ;-)

 

[REDEYE]

public needs to see fucks like this go down..

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Did Winner commit a crime? Sure looks that way. Should she be prosecuted? Yes.
If she's found guilty should she do time? Yes.

Having said that I can't help but think she's a scapegoat, an example to be made of.
A low hanging fruit (no pun intended) on a rather large tree. What she did is no
worse than what Clinton did. Yet....

A small feather in the cap of the prosecutor but a feather nonetheless.