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Federal Government Contractor in Georgia Charged With Removing and Mailing Classified Materials to a News Outlet

Excerpt: “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 is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia. … On or about May 9, Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information from an intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained it. Approximately a few days later, Winner unlawfully transmitted by mail the intelligence reporting to an online news outlet.”

 

The document Reality Winner allegedly disclosed is here.