In May 2017, amid allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election , a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) leaked a classified document to the press. The document revealed that Russia had launched two cyber attacks prior to the election, one against a company that sold software related to voter registration, and another against 122 local election officials.

The contractor, an Air Force veteran named Reality Winner , sent the document to The Intercept, a journalism site specializing in reporting leaks. But Winner admits now that she made a crucial miscalculation.

"What I had assumed was they would receive it [and] immediately assume that this was something that was important, that it answered very important questions that the country was having,

See Full Page