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Feds have arrested a contractor for leaking classified documents to media

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June 06, 2017, 07:48 AM
marksman41
Feds have arrested a contractor for leaking classified documents to media
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Originally posted by JALLEN:
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Originally posted by sdy:
marksman,

from the article, this link

https://www.documentcloud.org/...ing.html#document/p1


That was t/s? It says nothing, mere gibberish, speculation.


That's what I'm getting as well. I still don't see where there is anything definitive about what the Russians were supposed to have done, or what effect they had on anything. I'm not trying to be wilfully ignorant but if someone could point out what I'm missing I'd appreciate the help.




June 06, 2017, 08:16 AM
BamaJeepster
quote:
Originally posted by marksman41:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
marksman,

from the article, this link

https://www.documentcloud.org/...ing.html#document/p1


That was t/s? It says nothing, mere gibberish, speculation.


That's what I'm getting as well. I still don't see where there is anything definitive about what the Russians were supposed to have done, or what effect they had on anything. I'm not trying to be wilfully ignorant but if someone could point out what I'm missing I'd appreciate the help.


Nothing. It's really nothing.

Hackers tried to hack a software developer. Guess what? Happens about a million times a day to every single software developer on the planet. Big News Alert!



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June 06, 2017, 08:21 AM
jehzsa
"No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case".

Big Grin


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June 06, 2017, 08:38 AM
95flhr
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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Start convicting these people of treason AND the people who received the classified information!


This is without a doubt what I believe needs to happen. Make examples out of them and the problem will end.




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June 06, 2017, 08:49 AM
lastmanstanding
We missed the chance to make a meaningful and lasting example when Hillary skated. Instead she will now be used as a precedent for those who follow. Call it the extremely careless defense.

But because this Winner is a low level little bitch she will suffer the consequences as she should.

Had they dealt with Hillary they way they will probably deal with the most recent snowflake the problem would have gone away already.


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June 06, 2017, 09:45 AM
PASig
It looks like the FBI was able to track her down pretty quickly as the color printer she used to print the document placed "micro dots" that are invisible to the naked eye that show the printer serial number, time and date etc of the print job which they traced right back to her workplace.

I had no idea that color printers (they all apparently do this) ever did that.


June 06, 2017, 09:48 AM
Balzé Halzé
All I gotta say is that this traitor better go down hard and for a long time.


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June 06, 2017, 09:50 AM
parabellum
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Originally posted by PASig:
It looks like the FBI was able to track her down pretty quickly as the color printer she used to print the document placed "micro dots" that are invisible to the naked eye that show the printer serial number, time and date etc of the print job which they traced right back to her workplace.

I had no idea that color printers (they all apparently do this) ever did that.
These security features have been in place for years. This is how the Feds have caught many counterfeiters who copy currency on high resolution color printers.


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June 06, 2017, 09:55 AM
83v45magna
Whatever her fate, I think she'll have truly 'won' reality, after all.

She at least needs to go to Federal PMITA Prison till she's old and gray.

Bitch.
June 06, 2017, 09:55 AM
msfzoe
Treason = Incarceration.
June 06, 2017, 10:34 AM
sdy
reportedly she tweets as Sara Winners

https://twitter.com/Reezlie

Sara Winners‏ @Reezlie Feb 25

@kanyewest you should make a shirt that says, "being white is terrorism"


Sara Winners‏ @Reezlie Feb 11

Replying to @realDonaldTrump
the most dangerous entry to this country was the orange fascist we let into the white house
June 06, 2017, 12:00 PM
AzMikeCFD102
quote:
It looks like the FBI was able to track her down pretty quickly as the color printer she used to print the document placed "micro dots" that are invisible to the naked eye that show the printer serial number, time and date etc of the print job which they traced right back to her workplace.

I had no idea that color printers (they all apparently do this) ever did that.




According to analysis carried out in 2015 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, almost every modern printer secretly adds 'tracking dots' to every document.

The dots appear in a grid at the top of the first page and bottom of the last page, with some spaces filled in and others left blank.

Once flipped upside down, that pattern can be fed into software which reads it.

The software will then tell the user the exact date and time the document was printed, as well as the model and serial number of the printer it came from.


In the case of the NSA documents, that was a printer with model number 54, serial number 29535218, and the document was printed on May 9, 2017, at 6:20, Errata writes.

Because the NSA almost certainly keeps a record of all its printer serial numbers, it would have been a simple job to track the machine to Georgia.

All agents would then have to do is check who was using the printer at 6.20 on May 9 - information the NSA almost certainly keeps on record.

According to the criminal complaint, agents identified Winner after ascertaining that six people had printed the leaked information.

Once those six people had been identified, agents checked the email accounts of those staff members and saw that Winner was the only one who had emailed an outside news source.

When confronted, the report says she admitted leaking the information.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...r.html#ixzz4jF5dMRoC






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June 06, 2017, 12:01 PM
jimb888
SOTT had a great piece with links to the FBI and arrest warrent documents. Bottom line, they believe that given the poor tradescraft, The Intercept intentionally burned her. Interesting but they call her a Hillary partisan, some of the news was saying she was a Bernie supporter. Regardless, she'll have time to figure that out in jail now.
https://www.sott.net/article/3...-trust-the-Intercept

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Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, R.L. Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for years if not for the rest of her life.

FBI search (pdf) and arrest warrant (pdf) applications unveil irresponsible behavior by The Intercept's reporters and editors which neglected all operational security trade-craft that might have prevented the revealing of the source. It leaves one scratching the head if this was intentional or just sheer incompetence. Either way - the incident confirms what skeptics had long determined: The Intercept is not a trustworthy outlet for leaking state secrets of public interests. ....

June 06, 2017, 12:08 PM
parabellum
Good. I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. I hope she receives the maximum sentence and serves every damn day of it. I hope, most sincerely, that her life is now ruined.


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June 06, 2017, 12:35 PM
Sig2340
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Originally posted by parabellum:
Good. I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. I hope she receives the maximum sentence and serves every damn day of it. I hope, most sincerely, that her life is now ruined.


Her life is ruined, make no mistake. She isn't going to get the golden parachute the politically connected get.

But there are other people who are going to take it in the neck (deservedly so) due to her betrayal: her immediate manager, the people who made the terrible decision to hire her, and whomever granted her a TS clearance.





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June 06, 2017, 12:35 PM
HRK
quote:
According to the criminal complaint, agents identified Winner after ascertaining that six people had printed the leaked information.

Once those six people had been identified, agents checked the email accounts of those staff members and saw that Winner was the only one who had emailed an outside news source.


So the others printed it, perhaps they scanned, emailed or hand delivered it to other sources, even from a non government or rented PC....
June 06, 2017, 12:51 PM
parabellum
She confessed. What more do you need to know? There's no speculation here. She flat-out confessed when arrested.


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June 06, 2017, 12:52 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
I'm totaly sure there a more than a few people that right now are sweating bullets that she will squeal like a stuck hog...she just doesn't seem to be a tough or overly smart person (except maybe to her Facebook/twitter peeps)...suffer the reality of your situation Reality.


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June 06, 2017, 05:00 PM
sdy
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/...ed-leaker/index.html

Winner's attorney cast doubt on the government's side of the story, and as for the alleged confession, he said,

"The bigger issue is: Was my client interrogated without her attorney?"

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I would think the bigger issue is, how many years prison time ?

Or maybe, is this the only time she betrayed her country ?
June 06, 2017, 06:18 PM
reflex/deflex 64
We'll leave the light on.

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