Reality Winner receives 5 years, 3 months in prison for leaking classified info

Reality Winner.
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On Thursday, a federal judge in Georgia sentenced former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner to five years and three months in prison, after she pleaded guilty to leaking classified intelligence to the news site The Intercept.

Winner, a 26-year-old Air Force veteran, pleaded guilty in June. She is the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking to the media, NPR reports.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.