The probe regarding Russia’s supposed hacking of last year’s election just got murkier. First, The Intercept caused heads to spin and twitterverse to hyperventilate just a bit with this bit of info:
NEW: Russia tried to hack more than just emails. They also went after voting infrastructure. https://t.co/RkOA4kqzFn
— Josh Begley (@joshbegley) June 5, 2017
Interesting timing when one considers that Megyn Kelly, in a less than triumphant return (see ratings) to TV, aired the interview with Vladimir Putin last night. During which, in regards to Russian hacking and compromising information about President Trump, he denied having the information or even hacking systems to obtain it.
So when The Intercept published what it had today, many thought AH HA! While others were thinking…wait, wasn’t that what we saw a while back?
However, there ARE details in the NSA report that The Intercept published that was a big red flag to the Department of Justice. So much so, that this happened over the weekend:
A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e).
Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home on Saturday, June 3, and appeared in federal court in Augusta this afternoon. [Emphasis Added]
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