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Reality Winner

Biography

Reality Winner

A brilliant linguist, devout patriot, voracious reader, and fitness and yoga enthusiast from South Texas, Reality Winner was 25 and a U.S. Air Force veteran working at the NSA when she leaked a classified document that indicated that Russia had interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Today she is a fitness and language instructor who lives in South Texas and, though released from prison, is still fulfilling the terms of her sentence. 

Reality Winner

Books by Reality Winner

I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir
by Reality Winner - Memoir, Nonfiction

Reality Winner was a 25-year-old translator for the NSA when she read a classified document revealing what she assumed would make headlines during a time of unprecedented leaking: After blatant lies by the Trump administration and public silence by the NSA, there had in fact been foreign interference in the 2016 US election. In a breach of NSA protocol, she impulsively printed it, smuggled it out of the building, and mailed it to The Intercept, which published it and then promptly informed the NSA. For her crime, she received the longest prison sentence ever imposed on a government-affiliated employee convicted of a single count of leaking classified information and spent more than four years in federal prison. Now, for the first time, Winner tells her own story.