The FBI arrested a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday and charged her with leaking top-secret intelligence to a news outlet, the Justice Department said Monday.
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The FBI thinks it's found the person who leaked top secret intelligence about Russia
The FBI arrested a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday and charged her with leaking top-secret intelligence to a news outlet.
Winner "admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue" and mailing it to the outlet, according to the affidavit.
In a statement, Vivian Siu, the director of communications at The Intercept, said the document was provided to the outlet anonymously.
"The Intercept has no knowledge or identity of the source," Siu said.
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One additional clue that points toward the NSA document as what Winner leaked is that it has a declassification date of 05/05/2042. The affidavit says that the leaked top-secret document was first published "on or about May 5, 2017."
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