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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=988a6e6672&e=613b87ca24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Submits Clemency Petition Alongside More Than 4,000 Letters of Support</a></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /><span style="font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px">Taylor Barnes</span><span style="font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The attorney who organized Winner’s clemency petition was introduced to her by another client who met the NSA whistleblower behind bars.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://theintercept.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43fc0c0fce9292d8bed09ca27&id=c14a808eac&e=613b87ca24" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.6px;">READ MORE →</a></p><div>
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</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveillance-fbi-trump/">https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveillance-fbi-trump/</a></p><p>Go<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">VERNMENT WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">increasingly being charged under laws such as the</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/15/the-espionage-axe-donald-trump-and-the-war-against-a-free-press/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Espionage Act</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">, but they aren’t spies.</span></p><div data-reactid="200" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">They’re ordinary Americans and, like most of us, they carry smartphones that automatically get backed up to the cloud. When they want to talk to someone, they send them a text or call them on the phone. They use Gmail and share memes and talk politics on Facebook. Sometimes they even log in to these accounts from their work computers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Then, during the course of their work, they see something disturbing. Maybe it’s that the government <a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">often has no idea</a> if the people it kills in drone strikes are civilians. Or that the NSA <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">witnessed a cyberattack</a> against local election officials in 2016 that U.S. intelligence believes was orchestrated by Russia, even though the president is always on TV saying the opposite. Or that the FBI <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/hidden-loopholes-allow-fbi-agents-to-infiltrate-political-and-religious-groups/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">uses hidden loopholes</a> to bypass its own rules against infiltrating political and religious groups. Or that Donald Trump’s associates are implicated in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sketchy</a> financial transactions.</p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" /></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 20px 0px 10px; margin: 7px 40px 20px 0px; float: left; width: 400px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/21/why-you-should-care-about-donald-trumps-war-on-whistleblowers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2019/05/21/why-you-should-care-about-donald-trumps-war-on-whistleblowers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</a></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h6 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-eyebrow" kern="kern" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; font-kerning: normal;">Related</h6><h4 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-title" kern="kern" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; font-kerning: normal;">Why You Should Care About Donald Trump’s War on Whistleblowers</h4></div></div><div data-reactid="202" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">So they search government databases for more information and maybe print some of the documents they find. They search for related information using Google. Maybe they even send a text message to a friend about how insane this is while they consider possible next steps. Should they contact a journalist? They look up the <a href="https://theintercept.com/source/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">tips</a> pages of news organizations they like and start researching how to use Tor Browser. All of this happens before they’ve reached out to a journalist for the first time.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Most people aren’t very aware of it, but we’re all under surveillance. Telecom companies and tech giants have access to nearly all of our private data, from our exact physical locations at any given time to the content of our text messages and emails. Even when our private data doesn’t get sent directly to tech companies, our devices are still recording it locally. Do you know exactly what you were doing on your computer two months ago today at 3:05 p.m.? Your web browser probably does.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><b>Yet while we all live under extensive surveillance, for government employees and contractors — especially those with a security clearance — privacy is virtually nonexistent</b>. Everything they do on their work computers is monitored. Every time they search a database, their search term and the exact moment they searched for it is logged and associated with them personally. The same is true when they access a secret document, or when they print anything, or when they plug a USB stick into their work computer. There might be logs of exactly when an employee takes screenshots or copies and pastes something. Even when they try to outsmart their work computer by taking photos directly of their screen, video cameras in their workplace might be recording their every move.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Government workers with <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/isoo/new_sf312.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">security clearance</a> promise “never [to] divulge classified information to anyone” who is not authorized to receive it. But for many whistleblowers, the decision to go public results from troubling insights into government activity, coupled with the belief that as long as that activity remains secret, the system will not change. While there are some protections for whistleblowers who raise their concerns internally or complain to Congress, there is also a long history of those same people being punished for speaking out.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The growing use of the Espionage Act, a 1917 law </span>that criminalizes the release of “national defense” information by anyone “with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation,” shows how the system is rigged against whistleblowers. Government insiders charged under the law are not allowed to defend themselves by arguing that their decision to share what they know was prompted by an impulse to help Americans confront and end government abuses. “The act is blind to the possibility that the public’s interest in learning of government incompetence, corruption, or criminality might outweigh the government’s interest in protecting a given secret,” Jameel Jaffer, head of the Knight First Amendment Institute, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-espionage-act-and-a-growing-threat-to-press-freedom" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote recently</a>. “It is blind to the difference between whistle-blowers and spies.”</p></div><blockquote class="Pullquote Pullquote--right" data-reactid="203" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin: 2em -170px 2em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; box-shadow: none; line-height: 1.125; float: right; max-width: 75%;"><div data-reactid="204" style="box-sizing: border-box;">While we all live under extensive surveillance, for government employees and contractors — especially those with a security clearance — privacy is virtually nonexistent.</div></blockquote><div data-reactid="205" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Of the four Espionage Act cases based on alleged leaks in the Trump era, the most unusual concerned <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Joshua Schulte,</span> a former CIA software developer accused of leaking CIA documents and hacking tools known as the Vault 7 disclosures to WikiLeaks. Schulte’s case is different from the others because, after the FBI confiscated his desktop computer, phone, and other devices in a March 2017 raid, the government allegedly discovered over 10,000 images depicting child sexual abuse on his computer, as well as a file and chat server he ran that included logs of him discussing child sexual abuse images and screenshots of him using <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvn83q/joshua-schulte-cia-vault-7-wikileaks-opsec" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">racist slurs</a>. Prosecutors initially charged Schulte with several counts related to child pornography and later with sexual assault in a <a href="https://www.loudountimes.com/news/suspected-cia-leaker-was-charged-with-sexual-assault-in-loudoun/article_5b86c70c-5de4-11e8-8348-3b4a3bcac997.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">separate case</a>, based on evidence from his phone. Only in June 2018, in a superseding indictment, did the government finally charge him under the Espionage Act for leaking the hacking tools. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The other three Espionage Act cases related to alleged leaks of government secrets have involved people who are said to have been sources for The Intercept. The Intercept does not comment on its anonymous sources, although it has acknowledged <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/07/11/first-look-to-support-defense-of-reality-winner-in-espionage-act-prosecution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">falling short </a>of its own editorial standards in one case. It is not surprising that a publication founded as a result of the Snowden leaks, and one that has specialized in publishing secret government documents whose disclosure serves the public interest, has been an appealing target for the Trump administration’s war on whistleblowers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The government comes to this war armed with laws like the Espionage Act that are ripe for abuse, and with the overwhelming firepower of surveillance technology that has almost no limits when applied to its own workers and contractors. But journalists also have tools at their disposal, including the First Amendment and the ability to educate ourselves about the methods the government uses to track and spy on its employees. We’ve mined the court filings in <a href="https://pressfreedomtracker.us/leak-case/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">all </a><a href="https://pressfreedomtracker.us/leak-case/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">seven</a><a href="https://pressfreedomtracker.us/leak-case/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> leak cases</a> filed by Trump’s Justice Department <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">to identify the methods the government uses to unmask confidential sources. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><span data-shortcode-type="dropcap" class="dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; float: left; margin-bottom: 50px; margin-top: 28px; margin-right: 122px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -13px 0px -3px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px -23px 0px -3px, white 0px -28px;">W</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">WHEN A GOVERNMENT WORKER</span> becomes a whistleblower, the FBI gets access to reams of data describing exactly what happened on government computers and who searched for what in government databases, which helps narrow down the list of suspects. How many people accessed this document? How many people printed it? Can any of their work emails be used against them? What evidence can be extracted from their work computers?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Once the FBI has a list of suspects based on the vast amount of data the government itself has collected, they use court orders and search warrants to access even more information about the targets of its investigation. They compel tech companies, whose business models often rely on collecting as much information on their users as possible, to hand over everything, including personal emails, text messages, phone call metadata, smartphone backups, location data, files stored in Dropbox, and much more. FBI agents raid the houses and search the vehicles of these suspects, extracting whatever they can from any phones, computers, and hard drives they find. Sometimes, this includes files the suspects thought they had deleted or text messages and documents sent through encrypted messaging services like Signal or WhatsApp. The encryption these apps use protects messages while they’re sent over the internet so that the services themselves can’t spy on the content or hand it over to the government, but this encryption doesn’t protect messages stored on a phone or other device that is seized and searched.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Because whistleblowers aren’t spies, they normally don’t know how to avoid this kind of surveillance. One whistleblower who knew what he was up against, former CIA and National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, didn’t see any way to get secret government information into the public domain while retaining his anonymity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">“I appreciate your concern for my safety,” Snowden wrote in an encrypted email, from an anonymous address not associated with his real identity that he only accessed over the Tor network, to filmmaker Laura Poitras in the spring of 2013, “but I already know how this will end for me and I accept the risk.” In the documentary film “Citizenfour,” Snowden explains that the security measures he took while reaching out to journalists were only designed to buy him enough time to get information about the NSA’s overwhelming invasions of privacy to the American public. “I don’t think there’s a case that I’m not going to be discovered in the fullness of time,” he said from a hotel room in Hong Kong before he publicly came forward as the source.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">If we want to live in a world where it’s safer for people to speak out when they see something disturbing, we need technology that protects <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">everyone’s</em>privacy, and it needs to be enabled by default. Such technology would also protect the privacy of whistleblowers <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">before</em> they decide to become sources.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">In <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> 2017,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">in the first indictment of an alleged whistleblower since Trump became president, the Justice Department charged <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Reality Leigh Winner</b> under the Espionage Act for leaking a top-secret NSA document to a news organization that was widely reported to be The Intercept. At the time, Winner was a 25-year-old decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, who was also a dedicated CrossFit trainer with a passion for slowing the climate crisis. The document was an NSA intelligence report describing a cyberattack: Russian military intelligence officers hacked a U.S. company that provides election support in swing states and then, days before the 2016 election, sent local election officials — who were customers of this company — over 100 malware-infected emails, hoping to hack them next.</span></p><blockquote class="Pullquote Pullquote--right" data-reactid="206" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; margin: 2em -170px 2em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; box-shadow: none; line-height: 1.125; float: right; max-width: 75%;"><div data-reactid="207" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Government insiders charged under the Espionage Act are not allowed to defend themselves by arguing that their decision was in the public interest.</div></blockquote><div data-reactid="208" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">According to court documents, Winner was one of only six people who had printed the document she was accused of leaking (she had searched for, accessed, and printed the document on May 9, 2017). After searching all six of those employees’ work computers, they found that Winner was the only one who also had email contact with the news organization that published the document. (Using her private Gmail account, she had asked the news organization for a transcript of a podcast episode.) At the time, those who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/business/media/intercept-reality-winner-russia-trump-leak.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">accused</a> The Intercept of having revealed Winner’s identity said that the online publication, in an attempt to authenticate a document that had been sent anonymously, shared a copy with the government that contained a crease, suggesting that it had been printed. But Winner’s email and printing history alone would have made her the prime suspect.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">FBI agents then raided her house and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/12/28/how-the-interrogation-of-reality-winner-reveals-the-deceptive-tactics-of-exceedingly-friendly-fbi-agents/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">interrogated her</a> without a lawyer present and without telling her she had a right to remain silent, leading to defense accusations that the government violated her Miranda rights. In her house, they found handwritten notes about how to use a burner phone and Tor Browser. They also seized her Android smartphone and her laptop and extracted evidence from both devices.</p></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); padding: 20px 0px 10px; margin: 7px 40px 20px 0px; float: left; width: 400px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-thumbnail" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px;"><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;" /><a class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link" href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: flex; flex-direction: row;">
</a></div><div class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h6 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-eyebrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px">Related</h6><h4 class="PromoteRelatedPost-promo-link-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern">The Government’s Argument That Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn’t Hold Up. Here’s Why.</h4></div></div><div data-reactid="210" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The FBI also ordered several tech companies to hand over information from Winner’s accounts. Facebook provided data from her Facebook and Instagram accounts, Google provided data from two separate Gmail accounts she used, Twitter provided data on her account, and AT&T also contributed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">We don’t know exactly what these companies turned over, but we do know that they were ordered to disclose all information associated with her accounts, including:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Usernames, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">A history of every time she logged on, for how long, and from which IP addresses</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Metadata about every instance of communication she ever had over these services, including the type of communication, the source and destination, and the file size or duration of the communication</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The FBI also requested records of accounts that were linked to her Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter, and AT&T accounts — those that were created using the same email address, accessed from the same IP address, or logged into from the same web browser. (If users don’t take extra steps to remain anonymous, service providers can trivially link different accounts accessed from the same computer.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The FBI also extracted everything it could from Winner’s phone:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her photos, including one that was taken on February 7, 2017, of a webpage that listed eight SecureDrop servers run by different media organizations.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Data extracted from her smartphone apps like the Facebook app, which contained private messages she had exchanged with her sister, which were later used against her.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her phone’s browser history: On March 7, she visited a website that contained a list of “dark web email providers,” and she searched the internet for “tor email.” On May 9, at “approximately 7:29:49 p.m. (EST),” Winner searched for and viewed the tips page of the news outlet to which she was accused of leaking the NSA document, as well as the tips page of a second news outlet; later that night, she logged into her Dropbox account, and three minutes after that, she viewed the first media organization’s tips page again.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">So the FBI got a search warrant issued to Dropbox, demanding all the files and other information stored in Winner’s account, as well as “any messages, records, files, logs, or information that have been deleted but are still available to Dropbox, Inc.” Dropbox gave the FBI a thumb drive containing that data.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">They also got a search warrant issued to Google, demanding nearly everything stored in Winner’s account, including:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">All the messages in her Gmail account.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her Google search history.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her location history.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">All of her web browser activity that could be identified based on web browser cookies (this could possibly include a list of every webpage she visited that used the Google Analytics service).</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Backups of her Android phone.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Based on metadata that the FBI got from its previous court order to Google, the bureau learned about a new, separate Google account that it suspected Winner used, which it hadn’t previously known about. The search warrant demanded data from this other account as well. Google gave the FBI “electronic files in excess of 809mb (compressed)” of data from Winner’s two Google accounts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">The FBI also extracted data from her laptop. It discovered that she had downloaded Tor Browser on February 1, 2017, and had used it in February and March. The FBI also discovered a note saved to her desktop that contained the username and password for a small email company called VFEmail, and so it got another search warrant demanding a copy of everything in the VFEmail account as well.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Winner was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/statement-us-attorney-bobby-l-christine-regarding-sentencing-reality-winner" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">longest sentence</a> ever given to an alleged journalistic source by a federal court. The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, contributed to Winner’s legal defense through the <a href="https://www.pressfreedomdefensefund.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Press Freedom Defense Fund</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;">...</p></div></div><div>=</div></div><div><p>=</p><p>prosecuted under espionage act one doc one time; facing 10 yrs, forced to plea; 10 of 11 subpoenas denied; motion to suppress confession quash; atty gagged!
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winner update in better prison 9rurl ga cty jail, she vegan, leak over bunk; hot water, TP, not adeq medical care; not in same room visit, 30 min weekend; assaulted by another inmate, emergency call button and dr not work; cd only talk to lawyers in skiff; strip search, no recording gear? 50 min drive; 12 hr day, peanut butter and pot chips; later met at joil w/ atty, but secret monitor?! interrogated w/o miranda;
</p><p>did not get paul manafort treatment"
</p><p>; offered schol to local college, joined A
force to be arab linguist; DA twisted all (medals) ISIS sympathizer</p><p>her social media posts used against her, critic of WH; she has isis lit at home for resarch ctr-insurg purposes
</p><p><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-april-24-2019/">https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-april-24-2019/</a>
</p></div><div><p><b>=</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/06/09/Pro-Trump-media-falsely-claim-accused-leaker-Reality-Winner-had-plans-to-join-the-Taliban/216850">https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/06/09/Pro-Trump-media-falsely-claim-accused-leaker-Reality-Winner-had-plans-to-join-the-Taliban/216850</a></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em> is echoing baseless claims from fringe and pro-Trump media sites that the government contractor accused of leaking National Security Agency (NSA) documents revealing new information about Russian hacking in the 2016 election had “plans to join the Taliban.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/explosive-testimony-nsa-leaker-wanted-burn-white-house-pledged-allegiance-taliban/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fringe</a>, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/nsa-leakers-notebook-i-want-to-burn-the-white-house-down/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">far right, </a>and "<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-08/nsa-leaker-reality-winner-wanted-burn-down-white-house" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">alt-right" affiliated</a> media sites have baselessly pushed the <a href="https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/06/08/feds-reality-winner-wanted-to-burn-the-white-house-down-and-join-the-taliban/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claim</a> that Reality Leigh Winner, who leaked government information about the Russian hacking to the Intercept, had plans to “pledge her allegiance to the Taliban.” However, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/09/judges-denies-bail-for-accused-nsa-leaker-reality-winner-after-not-guilty-plea/?utm_term=.9fdbffc84d8f" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: currentcolor none medium; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">according</a> to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post</em>, "prosecutors were not trying to link [Winner] to terrorism," and the assistant U.S. attorney told the judge on the case that “The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer.” Nonetheless, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em> picked up the fringe right-wing claim and reported it as fact.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From the June 9 edition of Fox News’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em>:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</p><p>
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