Reality Winner, who leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 election, has been released from prison, her attorney said Monday.
Reality Winner, a former Air Force linguist who pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 election, has been released from prison, her attorney said Monday. « I am thrilled to announce that Reality Winner has been released from prison, » Alison Grinter Allen wrote in a post on Twitter. « She is still in custody in the residential reentry process, but we are relieved and hopeful. » A Bureau of Prisons website says that Winner is currently located at a reentry facility in San Antonio. Her release date from the facility is listed as Nov.23,2021. Winner, now 29, was 25 at the time that she printed out a classified intelligence report at the National Security Agency facility in Georgia where she worked and provided it to journalists at the investigative news outlet The Intercept. A story based on Winner’s leak was published on June 5, 2017, with the headline: « TOP-SECRET NSA REPORT DETAILS RUSSIAN HACKING EFFORT DAYS BEFORE 2016 ELECTION. » « Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept, » said the article, written by journalists Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Sam Biddle and Ryan Grim.
