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The thing about her is she had posted comments about supporting Edward Snowden as well as a lot of hatred toward Trump on social media. These should be red flags that she may be tempted to compromise security, but then most of that was after she had already been vetted and hired. She has a patriotic record with the military and no record of any wrongdoing prior to this.
Several things here convince me that she is very naive. I would say "stupid" but likely she has a very high IQ, but she did a lot of stupid things. First, thinking she could get away with printing out the reports. Even I know how to put spyware on machines to record every single thing you do. If the NSA is NOT 100% monitoring it's employees and contractors I would be very surprised and disappointed, and I would be very disappointed in an employee or contractor of theirs not assuming they were being monitored in this way. (Maybe it's one of those things a young person hasn't BTDT yet.)
Secondly, she spilled her guts without legal representation. WTF?? She confessed everything right off the bat. Either deep naivete, stupidity, unfamiliarity with the system, or it's a deliberate mission for some unimaginable reason. OR, just believing the rules don't apply to her, being another spoiled, misinformed millennial who consumed so much CNN that she truly thinks the whole world agrees with her that Trump is illegitimate and she would be a hero for trying to bring him down. She's half right about that - no doubt the left WILL completely lionize her for this. But trust me there are still enough FBI and NSA folks around on the other side to do her in. I hope they give her the max and send a clear message to the rest of the 4 million people with top secret clearances.
While I agree with this, to be fair, that is why Congress and the special counsel are investigating. I understand there's nothing there but this will just have to take its course now that it's happening.
Representative Al Green (D-TX) has already said he's preparing articles of impeachment to introduce to the House.
The family of an intelligence contractor who allegedly leaked a highly classified document about Russian interference in the U.S. election told NBC News that "she would not jeopardize anybody's safety."
Reality Winner, a 25-year-old who worked at the National Security Agency, has been charged with providing the report to The Intercept, an online news organization. Winner's mother said her daughter was "terrified" when she returned to her Augusta home Saturday to find armed federal agents waiting for her.
"Her words to me was that she was scared she was going to be ... they were going to make her disappear," mother Billie Davis-Winner said Tuesday.
Thirteen previously exempted Alabama counties saw an 85 percent drop in food stamp participation after work requirements were put in place on Jan. 1, according to the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
The counties - Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Monroe, Conecuh, Clarke, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter and Barbour - had been exempt from a change that limited able-bodied adults without dependents to three months of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits within a three-year time frame unless they were working or participating in an approved training program.