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Contractor is charged with leaking top-secret document about Russian hacking

poweRob said:
Yet another RW version of "I know you are but what am I?"

It's all you guys have. :lol:
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Your padnah responded with "fake news" and you pick on me? :lamo
 
I hope the dislike of Assange and Snowden means we won't have to read anymore crazy stuff!
 
apdst said:
Your padnah responded with "fake news" and you pick on me? :lamo
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I didn't say you posted "fake news". That was someone else. Try again.
 
haymarket said:
why is that?

Because of this woman who dared to risk her job and her freedom to inform the American people, we know only now that the Russian effort was far deeper and far more serious that just trying to help Trump win and extract favors from him down the road. The Russians were trying to get into voter registration data bases and who knows what else.

And for that great public service you want to kill this person? Amazing!!!! :doh:roll:
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She "stands with Iran ", and supports the North American Islamic Society.

Do you ? Oh and remember when Obama's NHS tried 10 seperate time to hack into Georgia's voter registration data base ?
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc...ack-of-georgias-election-database-report.html

But ZOMG the " Russians ZOMG...Lol !
 
WCH said:
probably not the DP but, much has been made about the nilly willy control of secret information by those in and around our government. She and others caught doing this need to be made an example of what happens when you break the rules.
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No doubt she will be made an example of. But she also knew the risk and took it so she was obviously motivated by something other than the personal gain that motivates most criminal actions.
 
 
nota bene said:
From the LA Times:
A woman who worked as a records contractor for the federal government has been arrested on charges of turning over a secret document to a news organization, the first arrest of an alleged leaker by the Trump administration.

The woman, Reality Leigh Winner, 25, of Augusta, Ga., was arrested over the weekend, the Justice Department said Monday.

According to an affidavit, Winner admitted providing the document to a news organization. Although the document and the media company were not identified in the affidavit, the announcement of the arrest came just hours after the Intercept published a National Security Agency analysis that concluded that Russian hackers were able to penetrate an American technology company that works with voter data. In first leak case of Trump administration, 25-year-old Georgia woman is arrested by FBI - LA Times

Her attorney describes her as a "very good person." The federal agency for which her company, Pluribus International, works has not been identified. I wonder what her motive(s) were.
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What her motives were? Her lawyer says it: Good.
 
She needs to be punished but I also don't think they need to throw the book at her. If it were up to me, which it isn't, I would strip her of her security clearance for life and give her about 3 years in jail. That is enough to still act as a deterrent.

To me, people who leak this kind of information to the press aren't traitors. They are criminals, certainly, but not traitors. If she had just given or sold the information to, say, the Russians, that would make her a traitor, and I would say throw the book at her. But it appears this is another case of a federal employee trying to get information out to the American people. That might be reckless, but I just don't feel it is treason. But we can't have every federal employee making that call for themselves, so it definitely merits jail time.
 
ModerateGOP said:
They are all leakers. What's the difference?
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there is a difference in exposing government corruption in which people should have been arrested from said government.
this doesn't expose anything.
 
nota bene said:
From the LA Times:
A woman who worked as a records contractor for the federal government has been arrested on charges of turning over a secret document to a news organization, the first arrest of an alleged leaker by the Trump administration.

The woman, Reality Leigh Winner, 25, of Augusta, Ga., was arrested over the weekend, the Justice Department said Monday.

According to an affidavit, Winner admitted providing the document to a news organization. Although the document and the media company were not identified in the affidavit, the announcement of the arrest came just hours after the Intercept published a National Security Agency analysis that concluded that Russian hackers were able to penetrate an American technology company that works with voter data. In first leak case of Trump administration, 25-year-old Georgia woman is arrested by FBI - LA Times

Her attorney describes her as a "very good person." The federal agency for which her company, Pluribus International, works has not been identified. I wonder what her motive(s) were.
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Wonder if she used Hillary's private server?
 
ludin said:
there is a difference in exposing government corruption in which people should have been arrested from said government.
this doesn't expose anything.
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poweRob said:
But you LUUURRRV wikileaks... amirite?
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No one loves Wikileaks. But they are out of reach.

It is nice to know that the dnc leadership really thinks of its constituents as dumb unaware and compliant sheep who they can steer with words through a made up fantasy land while the leadership eats steak at the grown up table.

People are wising up and throwing off these obligations to entrenched politicians.

The republicans are no better in they are self interested as a group, unable to unify, and terrified of losing power.

None of them seem to realize they are there to serve the people.


There's at least three threads on this.

Please merge.

That young lady had a severe case of tds aggravated with some Bernie insanity. Not much more to it than that.
We know the Russians tried in 2016. They succeeded with a joint economic attack with china in 2008 in wiping out Mccains lead.

McCain. What a sailboat captain. Ugh.

At least we would not be cleaning up after Obamas experiments in socialism.
 
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poweRob said:
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so do you not believe that government corruption should not be exposed?
and the people that are basically violating the law and the rights of the people arrested or removed from office?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
She needs to be punished but I also don't think they need to throw the book at her. If it were up to me, which it isn't, I would strip her of her security clearance for life and give her about 3 years in jail. That is enough to still act as a deterrent.

To me, people who leak this kind of information to the press aren't traitors. They are criminals, certainly, but not traitors. If she had just given or sold the information to, say, the Russians, that would make her a traitor, and I would say throw the book at her. But it appears this is another case of a federal employee trying to get information out to the American people. That might be reckless, but I just don't feel it is treason. But we can't have every federal employee making that call for themselves, so it definitely merits jail time.
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The problem is that she "radicalized" by the hysteria in politics/media and contracted a severe case of TDS.
She then threw a chunk of her life away over what was essentially a "nothing burger" leak.
 
haymarket said:
why is that?

Because of this woman who dared to risk her job and her freedom to inform the American people, we know only now that the Russian effort was far deeper and far more serious that just trying to help Trump win and extract favors from him down the road. The Russians were trying to get into voter registration data bases and who knows what else.

And for that great public service you want to kill this person? Amazing!!!! :doh:roll:
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Yes, a great public service for the Russians. Because of her, and others like her, the Russians now have more information about our intelligence gathering on them. She is a traitor, and should be treated as such. Only a fool (or a Russian) would support her activities against this country.
 
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