Reality Winner never really had a chance to explain herself. After the young whistleblower leaked a classified 2017 National Security Agency bulletin about Russian election-meddling attempts to the Intercept, whose botched reporting allowed the feds to track her down, the perception of the otherwise low-key Winner escaped all containment. The government, which charged her under the historically censorious Espionage Act , painted her as a terrorist sympathizer who desired to sabotage the system from within. Liberal and conservative pundits alike dismissed her as a childish dreamer and America-hating traitor acting upon her “ Trump derangement syndrome. ” The verbatim transcript of her encounter with and arrest by the FBI was turned into a Broadway play and then a movie with Sydne

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