agent was sentenced to 43 months for leaking classified information to The Associated Press about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen. They said that in the months before she leaked the report, Ms. Winner had downloaded software that helped her hide her web searches and communications; had expressed support for Edward J. Snowden, the N.S.A. Winner had been “mad about some things she had seen in the media, and she wanted to set the facts right.”Some advocacy groups have championed Ms. Winner as a whistle-blower, saying that the leak of the report alerted states to the dangers posed to elections by outside hackers — something that security agencies had been slow to do, according to a Senate report.

Source: New York Times August 23, 2018 15:11 UTC