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
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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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Yes, he (or others) gave that testimony in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Plus 2016 IG report worried abt entire servers walking
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But as I note in post, Snowden had to pull some strings in 2013 to keep access to open port. Assume if she had one they know what she took.
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