The FBI arrested a suspect accused of illegally leaking classified documents to the media on Saturday and facts are beginning to role in. Below are 10 quick facts to get you up-to-date:
- The alleged leaker is a 25-year-old woman with the unusual name “Reality Leigh Winner.”
- Reality Winner was a federal contractor worker with Pluribus International Corporation who had “top secret” clearance and had been assigned to a government agency facility in Augusta, George, the site of a large National Security Agency (NSA) facility, since February of this year.
- She was a linguist in the Air Force and speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari foreign languages, which are common to Iran and Afghanistan.
- The illegal leaker is a supporter of socialist Bernie Sanders as well as progressive leftist Marxists like Michael Moore, the Daily Caller reported. It is not known to the degree that progressive rhetoric radicalized the 25-year-old but it appears to play a large role. Should the U.S. ever go to war with Iran, Winner pledged allegiance to the Islamic terrorist state of Iran:
- Winner posted on social media via Facebook that she was against the safe practice of natural gas fracking, and much like CNN host Reza Aslan, referred to President Trump as a “piece of sh*t.”
- Winner admitted to FBI agents that she stole the documents and provided them to The Intercept. The news site published an article on Monday that appears to be based on the stolen materials. The Top Secret records show that Russian agents attempted to hack into U.S. voting systems prior to the November election, the Daily Caller reported.
- Winner considered herself to be part of “The Resistance,” a treasonous leftist movement whose goal is a communist takeover of America and thought that somehow “being white is terrorism.”
- Winner considered President Trump the “most dangerous” person in the country and an “orange fascist.”
- According to her social media, she claims to have had a 30-minute meeting with Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., on Feb. 14, a day after receiving her clearance, U.S. News & World Report reported. The topic was the Dakota Access Pipeline which Winner vehemently opposed.
- Reality Leigh Winner is the first person criminally charged in a leak investigation during the Trump administration. She probably won’t be the last.