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Reality Winner

January 2024

  • woman in a blazer walking up steps with american flags behind her

    First look review
    Winner review – snappy, I, Tonya-esque take on Reality Winner

    The second film in less than a year on the NSA whistleblower takes a brisk, jazzy look at her life before and after her headline-making leaks

June 2023

  • Sydney Sweeney as Reality Winner in Reality.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Reality review – palm-sweatingly tense whistleblower drama

    Tina Satter’s verbatim film about the FBI’s interrogation of US intelligence leaker Reality Winner is a stranger-than-fiction reflection of our precarious times

April 2023

  • sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers

    The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

February 2023

  • Superb micro-calibrations … Sydney Sweeney in Reality.

    Reality review – word-for-word replay of FBI interrogation is uncannily brilliant

    Using the transcript of the arrest of whisteblower Reality Winner, Tina Satter’s superb piece of verbatim cinema asks questions about how power is wielded in real life

September 2022

  • Reality Winner poses in a photo posted to her Instagram account<br>Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for sending classified material to a news organization, poses in a picture posted to her Instagram account. Reality Winner/Social Media via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

    Reality Winner finds Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case ‘incredibly ironic’

    Former intelligence contractor served four years in prison for leaking report on Russian interference in 2016 election

July 2022

  • Reality Winner in 2010 while in the Air Force

    Reality Winner says she leaked file on Russia election hacking because ‘public was being lied to’

    Former NSA contractor says in interview ‘I knew it was secret … but I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people’

June 2021

  • FILE- In this June 26, 2018 file photo, Reality Winner walks into the Federal Courthouse in Augusta, Ga. Winner is serving a five year sentence for mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization. She is asking President Donald Trump to grant her clemency. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP, File)

    NSA whistleblower Reality Winner released from prison

    Ex-intelligence contractor convicted of leaking report on Russian interference in US election released for good behavior

February 2020

  • FILE PHOTO: Combination photo showing Winner, the U.S. intelligence contractor charged with leaking classified National Security Agency material in this undated booking photo in Lincolnton<br>FILE PHOTO: Combination photo showing Reality Winner, the U.S. intelligence contractor charged with leaking classified National Security Agency material is seen in these undated booking photos in Lincolnton, Georgia, U.S., received June 8, 2017. Lincoln County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    NSA whistleblower who leaked Russian hacking report petitions for clemency

    Reality Winner was sentenced to five years in 2018 after leaking classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election

August 2018

  • Reality Winner<br>FILE - This June 2017 file photo released by the Lincoln County, Ga., Sheriff's Office, shows Reality Winner. Winner, of Georgia, who mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization faces the "longest sentence" ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing. Former National Security Agency contractor Winner, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 23, 2018, by a U.S. District Court judge in Augusta. (Lincoln County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

    Reality Winner: NSA contractor jailed for five years over classified report leak

    Winner, who leaked report on Russian election interference, is first person Trump administration charged under Espionage Act

June 2018

  • FILE PHOTO: Combination photo showing Winner, the U.S. intelligence contractor charged with leaking classified National Security Agency material in this undated booking photo in Lincolnton<br>FILE PHOTO: Combination photo showing Reality Winner, the U.S. intelligence contractor charged with leaking classified National Security Agency material is seen in these undated booking photos in Lincolnton, Georgia, U.S., received June 8, 2017. Lincoln County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    Reality Winner pleads guilty to leaking classified report to news outlet

    Ex-Air Force linguist entered plea in Georgia, a year after she was arrested and the Intercept said it had an NSA report

8 June 2017

  • This picture obtained by AFP on June 06, 2017 as it was made available on social networks shows an undated and unlocated “selfie” picture of Reality Leigh Winner. US authorities arrested the 25-year-old woman, Reality Leigh Winner, who worked for an NSA subcontractor, soon after a top secret National Security Agency report on Russian interference in the US election leaked and was posted by The Intercept, a news website. / AFP PHOTO / OFF / - / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS -/AFP/Getty Images

    Reality Winner indicted for transmitting national defense information

    Government contractor and former Air Force linguist formally charged, facing a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine

6 June 2017

  • Reality Winner poses in a photo posted to her Instagram account<br>Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for sending classified material to a news organization, poses in a picture posted to her Instagram account. Reality Winner/Social Media via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

    Reality Winner: NSA contractor and environmentalist repulsed by Trump

    Friend describes Winner, first person charged by Trump administration with violating Espionage Act, as ‘obsessed’ with fight against Isis
  • reality winner

    NSA contractor faces 10-year sentence in first Espionage Act charge under Trump

    DoJ says in criminal complaint Reality Winner admitted to leaking document that revealed Russian hacking of US voting systems manufacturer before election

    • The arrest of Reality Winner highlights US intelligence vulnerability

    • Donald Trump promised to go after leakers. Now he's doing just that

      Arjun Sethi

    • NSA contractor Reality Winner accused of leaking file on Russia election hacking

5 June 2017

  • US Presidential Election<br>epa05622922 A voter walks back to table with his ballet to vote at a polling location for the 2016 US presidential election at the Chase County Community Building in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, USA, 08 November 2016. Americans vote on Election Day to choose the 45th President of the United States of America to serve from 2017 through 2020. EPA/LARRY W. SMITH

    Russian agents hacked US voting system manufacturer before US election – report

    Federal contractor arrested and charged with removing classified material after NSA report said cyber-attack on software supplier and phishing emails hit officials
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