Hours after the Intercept's report — https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/ … — DOJ announces charges: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-government-contractor-georgia-charged-removing-and-mailing-classified-materials-news … 1/2
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The Intercept told the second contractor where the documents had come from and sent a picture of them to the second contractor.
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JUST IN: Winner's lawyer tells
@BuzzFeedNews she will remain in custody at least until a Thursday detention hearing.https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/a-federal-government-contractor-has-been-charged-with?utm_term=.ikjoq6Ym3K#.nnmvLXqQ7j … -
bet she was paid by the Intercept.
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No, I don't think so, based on the information provided. She mailed the document anonymously, it appears from the information known so far.
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Speculating here - but new NSA contractor, young, impressionable...maybe coaxed into this by someone else - maybe another contractor
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So Intercept burned their source. Classy.
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They had no idea who the source was at all, it was just mailed to them in an envelope - prior email contact was unrelated.
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Reality had just emailed them asking for a transcript to a podcast, was unrelated to the leak, but that's how they guessed it was her
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That is in our report.
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& burned their odds of ever having another source.
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Let's refer to that person as "Snitch Contractor Asshole 1"
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Or "I don't want to lose my security clearance so I am going to have to report this"
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Meh, then why did he agree to talk about it in the first place?? Fuck him.
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We don't know what he agreed to. We only know what govt claims in a one paragraph
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That reads snitch. I'll stick with that until shown otherwise.
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Well golly Gomer, thanks!
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Ever see something move so fast from action to investigation to indictment?
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Sounds like she admitted everything
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