NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking Classified Information to the Media

The Justice Department has announced charges against an NSA contractor for allegedly leaking classified information to a news organization.

25 year old Reality Winner reportedly removed confidential information from an NSA site in Georgia.

The charges were announced after The Intercept published an NSA briefing about the alleged Russian meddling in last year's election.

Winner worker as a contractor for Pluribus International Corporation & had been working at the NSA since February. She is charged wth "gathering, transmitting or losing defence information"

This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.