Reality Winner Archives

January 15, 2021

Amid a Spate of Late-Term Trump Pardons, Reality Winner’s Name Remains Conspicuously Absent

The president called the five-year sentence for the former National Security Agency translator, convicted for leaking documents about Russian election interference, “unfair,” but he has not granted her clemency.

By Leif Reigstad

Reality Winner, 26, walks out of the Federal Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, June 26, 2018 after pleading guilty to leaking a classified document allegedly taken while she was working as a NSA contractor at Fort Gordon, Ga.

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August 24, 2018

Texan Sentenced to Five Years for NSA Leaks on Russian Hacking

Kingsville native Reality Winner will serve the longest sentence so far under the Espionage Act.

By Doyin Oyeniyi