The Intercept
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The Intercept is an American left-wing and progressive nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online. The Intercept has published in English since its founding in 2014, and i
Photograph by Trevor Paglen of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade first published in The Intercept
Reality Winner
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Reality Leigh Winner is a United States Air Force veteran, and a former National Security Agency translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release
The Intercept
…officials. The document was mailed from a source inside the NSA, who did not reveal their identity to Intercept writers. One hour after publication, Reality Winner, a 25-year-old NSA contract employee, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. The article…
Winner at the 2025 Texas Book Festival
"Russia military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report ... dated May 5, 2017, the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light." —The Intercept, June 5, 2017.