{"id":311547,"date":"2017-06-06T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assange-wants-support-for-nsa-whistleblower-as-wikileaks-offers-10k-reward-to-expose-reporter\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:38:43","slug":"assange-wants-support-for-nsa-whistleblower-as-wikileaks-offers-10k-reward-to-expose-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/assange-wants-support-for-nsa-whistleblower-as-wikileaks-offers-10k-reward-to-expose-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange wants support for NSA whistleblower as WikiLeaks offers $10k reward to \u2018expose\u2019 reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange is calling for the woman who allegedly leaked top secret NSA documents to The Intercept to be \u201csupported\u201d and the reporter who gave her information to US officials to be \u201cnamed and shamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The FBI arrested Reality Leigh Winner, 25, at her home in Georgia on Saturday, and charged her with \u201cremoving classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet<\/em>,\u201d according to a statement<\/a> from the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Assange took to Twitter Tuesday to encourage public support for Winner who, he says, is a \u201cyoung woman accused of courage in trying to help us know<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alleged NSA whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner must be supported. She is a young women accused of courage in trying to help us know. pic.twitter.com\/B4aIdt7qz6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) June 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a separate tweet Assange supposedly responded to critics of Winner, saying \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter why she did it or the quality [of] the report. Acts of non-elite sources communicating knowledge should be strongly encouraged<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t matter why she did it or the quality the report. Acts of non-elite sources communicating knowledge should be strongly encouraged.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) June 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Assange went on to denounce the suspected Intercept reporter who allegedly shared the documents, and Winner\u2019s postcode, with US officials.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: DOJ charges govt contractor with leaking top secret material to The Intercept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WikiLeaks went one step further, offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the \u201cpublic exposure and termination<\/em>,\u201d of the reporter.<\/p>\n

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WikiLeaks issues a US$10,000 reward for information leading to the public exposure & termination of this ‘reporter’: https:\/\/t.co\/W9wijCk5d3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The secret report, published<\/a> by The Intercept Monday, alleges that Russian Military Intelligence launched a cyber attack on a voting machine software company, and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials, just days before the 2016 US presidential election.<\/p>\n

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Reality Winner, arrested for alleged classified leak, is a former US Air Force linguist who speaks Pashto, Farsi & Dari, her mother tells me pic.twitter.com\/SQjt13wRw6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The leak \u201cthreatens national security<\/em>\u201d and \u201cundermines public faith in government<\/em>,\u201d according to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Winner faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published time: 6 Jun, 2017 12:37 WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange is calling for the woman who allegedly leaked top secret NSA documents to The Intercept to be \u201csupported\u201d and the reporter who gave her information to US officials to be \u201cnamed and shamed.\u201d The FBI arrested Reality Leigh Winner, 25, at her home in Georgia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}