Reality Winner to Face Stiff Punishment for Leaking Classified Information

Remember Reality Winner?  Well she is about to be sentenced for leaking Secret information to the media and it is not looking good for her:

A Georgia woman who mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization faces the “longest sentence” ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing.

Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 23 by U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall in Augusta. She pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national security information when she worked in Augusta as a translator at an NSA facility.

Winner’s plea deal with prosecutors calls for imprisonment of five years and three months. But the sentencing judge isn’t bound by that agreement. Winner’s crime carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.

The Trump administration has made prosecuting government employees who leak sensitive information to the media a high priority, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged to clamp down on leaks last year.

In a court filing Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Winner’s case said the 63-month sentence they’re recommending is plenty stiff to deter other government workers from leaking sensitive information, even if it could be tougher.  [Associated Press]

You can read more at the link, but I have no sympathy for people who leak Secret information to the media.  What makes this even more pathetic for her is that the information she leaked CNN had already reported on back in October 2016.  A federal official told CNN that Russia may have compromised the personal information of Florida, Illinois, and Arizona voters.  Reality Winnner’s leak of the document just confirmed what was already known.