Augusta, GA
Movie released about Augusta woman who leaked classified documents
28-year-old Reality Winner
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office
AUGUSTA, Ga. –
HBO has released a new film centered around a 2017 document leak by an Augusta woman Reality Winner.
The film, titled “Reality,” debuted on HBO on Monday. According to the series website, the dialogue is taken directly from Winner’s FBI interrogation transcripts.
In 2017, Winner was working as an NSA contractor in Augusta when she printed a classified report and mailed it to an online news outlet. She pled guilty to transmitting national security information charges in 2018.
Winner was sentenced to five years and three months in the Lincoln County jail but was released in 2021. She remains on probation for another year.
Her case marked the first criminal charges filed against someone accused of leaking government documents during the Trump Administration.
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