NSA leaker Reality Winner, 30, denies being a 'traitor' and says she passed classified report on Russian election interference to the media 'to serve the American people', in first interview since release from five-year sentence
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner sat down with CBS 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Sunday in first interview since June prison release
- The Air Force vet was jailed in 2018 for leaking a classified report to the media during the 2016 and subsequently being prosecuted under the Espionage Act
- During the interview, Winner, 30, asserted that she's not a traitor and only acted in 'service to the American people' when she leaked the classified documents
- 'I am not a traitor. I am not a spy. I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for,' Winner, now released and living in Texas, said
- Whistleblower Winner revealed during the interview that she cut herself regularly in prison and developed a drug addiction
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-07 |