Intelligence contractor leaked a top-secret report
A federal judge sentenced former U. S. intelligence contractor Reality Winner on Thursday to more than five years in prison after she admitted leaking to a media outlet a top-secret report on Russian interference in U. S. elections, her attorney said.
Winner, 26, who has already spent nearly two years in jail, pleaded guilty in June to passing the National Security Agency report to The Intercept in 2016. She will receive credit for the time she spent in pre-trial confinement, said one of her attorneys, Titus Nichols.
During a hearing in Winner’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia, Judge James Hall approved her lawyers’ request for a 63-month sentence followed by three years of supervised release, Nichols said. It was the longest sentence ever given to someone for illegally disclosing government information, according to Nichols.
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