Reality Leigh Winner is a former enlisted United States Air Force member and NSA translator from the United States. At the time of this writing, Reality Winner is not a mother.
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She spends her days working out and caring for her horse, Trouble. From 2010 to 2016, Winner served in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of senior airman (E-4 pay grade) with the 94th Intelligence Squadron.
Reality Winner moved to Augusta, Georgia, a month after being honourably discharged from the Air Force in November 2016, where she taught at a CrossFit gym and a yoga studio.
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On June 3, 2017, Winner was arrested while working for the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report from the National Security Agency (NSA) about Russian interference in the 2016 US elections to the news website The Intercept.
According to the report, Russian hackers used email phishing to gain access to voter registration rolls in the United States, though it was unclear whether any changes were made. She received the longest prison sentence ever imposed for the unauthorised release of government information to the media in 2018. She received a five-year, three-month sentence in federal prison.
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