Accused NSA Leaker Reality Winner Will Enter Not Guilty Plea
Reality Winner, the government contractor accused of leaking a top-secret National Security Agency memo to the media, will plead not guilty, her lawyer confirmed to NPR.
Winner, 25, is set to appear in court Thursday afternoon in Augusta, Georgia, where she had worked at a federal facility through Pluribus International Corp. She was arrested Saturday on charges of violating the Espionage Act by “removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet,” a criminal complaint stated.
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