Loading ...FBI Arrests NSA Contractor Who Leaked Top Secret “Russian Hacking” Document To The Intercept
Earlier this afternoon, the Intercept reported that according to a “top secret NSA document”, 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 days before election.”
The NSA document, reportedly dated May 5, analyzes recently acquired intelligence about “a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure.” The document notes that investigation only began in the last few months. The document claims the investigation was spurred by “information that became available in April 2017.”
According to the Intercept, the report is “the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light. It is said to reveal that that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood” and “states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document.” This is what the document alleges:
Federal Government Contractor in Georgia Charged With Removing and Mailing Classified Materials to a News Outlet
A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e).
Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, and appeared in federal court in Augusta this afternoon.
Meet Reality Winner: the new Edward Snowden:
Meet Reality Leigh Winner. The 25-y-o was charged today with leaking top secret NSA report on Russian hacking to @theintercept pic.twitter.com/YhKk688LWJ
— The Smoking Gun (@tsgnews) June 5, 2017te: some additional details have emerged about leaker Reality Leigh Winner, who for some inexplicable reason had a top security clearance.
According to the Guardian’s John Swaine, Winner is a former US Air Force linguist who speaks Pashto, Farsi & Dari
Reality Winner, arrested for alleged classified leak, is a former US Air Force linguist who speaks Pashto, Farsi & Dari, her mother tells me pic.twitter.com/SQjt13wRw6
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 5, 2017
* * *
Here she is calling the president a “piece of shit” on Facebook over his handling of DAPL:
Alleged NSA leaker, #RealityWinner called @POTUS a ‘piece of shit’ on Facebook over his administration’s handling of DAPL. pic.twitter.com/aH7rRsISud
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 5, 2017
* * *
Winner posting an autographed photo of Anderson Cooper on facebook.
Alleged NSA Leaker #RealityWinner posted autographed photo of CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/Uqj8SZdo4I
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) June 5, 2017
* * *
Her facebook post before the election in which she says “this Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport.”
Here’s what Reality Winner posted on Facebook before the election: pic.twitter.com/vWDFnKkVNM
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 5, 2017
* * *
Here she is visiting the office of US Senator Perdue before leaking the classified docs.
