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Alleged Whistleblower Arrested for Leaking Classified Information

Reality Leigh Winner allegedly printed a top secret intelligence report from the NSA, which she then sent to an unspecified news outlet.

The FBI made good on President Donald Trump's repeated promise to "find the leakers" Monday, arresting and charging 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner with leaking classified documents to the media.

Until last week, Winner was an independent contractor for the national security firm Pluribus International Corporation and had top secret security clearance at an unnamed US government facility in Georgia where she worked, according to the Justice Department's federal criminal complaint. In May, she allegedly used that clearance to print and removed a top secret intelligence report from the agency, which she then sent it to an unspecified news outlet.

She was arrested at her home on Saturday and made an appearance in federal court in Augusta Monday, according to the DOJ.

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