NSA Leaker Reality Winner’s 5-Year Term is An Attack on Whistleblowing

Reality Winner has been sentenced to over 5 years in behind bars for leaking an NSA document to The Intercept about alleged Russian spearphishing in the US election system. It’s the longest ever prison sentence for a media source in US history. We speak to Shadowproof’s Kevin Gosztola about the trial and the double-standards in how the US government prosecutes leakers. (Part Two to follow next week)

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