Back in 2017, NSA contractor Reality Winner mailed a classified document about Russian interference in the 2016 elections to reporters at The Intercept. We sat down with her, in a rare interview, in an attempt to answer a simple question: after serving the longest sentence ever meted out to someone for leaking classified information to the media – did she do exceptionally grave damage to this country, as the prosecutors alleged, or, as her supporters contend, was she trying to defend America’s democratic institutions from our adversaries? The answer is complicated.
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