This will tick off roughly half the people following me, but it made sense to deny Winner bail. For starters she premeditated the leak 1/n
Gov doesn't decide, the court does. Problem is 1) Courts have biases (cf going harder on Muslim terrorists 2) claim fr govt were out there
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Nuance lost in 140 chars. Courts part of gov, and sure they are biased, but I still think they did right here.
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I would feel better abt it if govt claims were in motion for detention. As reported, they were pretty out there & I'd like to assess better
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I might also feel differently if she hadn't confessed already, but as it stands...
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Writing a post up, but note this account of her hearing basically says she's denied bail bc of what's in her head.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-leak-indictment-reality-winner-20170608-story.html …
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Well, also the missing hard drive and her own notebook talking about fleeing to Kurdistan (she knows Arabic already).
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Right. But 1) Existing leak actually already accounts for plural docs https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/11/reality-winner-already-leaked-documents-plural/ …
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2) Is NSA REALLY so inept we can believe their security/insider threat detection has gotten worse since Snowden?
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I'm lacking the link atm, but didn't Clapper testify last year that the IC was behind meeting it's own modest goals for insider detection?
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