{"id":1800,"date":"2018-08-23T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T00:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:20:28","slug":"the-justice-department-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-its-ok-for-mueller-to-publicly-release-this-information-in-an-attempt-to-prosecute-alleged-russian-hackers-because-its-in-the-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/23\/the-justice-department-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-its-ok-for-mueller-to-publicly-release-this-information-in-an-attempt-to-prosecute-alleged-russian-hackers-because-its-in-the-p\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government\u2019s Argument that Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn\u2019t Hold Up. Here\u2019s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/23\/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking<\/a><\/p>\n

The real Deep State…<\/p>\n

WHISTLEBLOWER REALITY WINNER was officially sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday, after a federal judge rubber-stamped a plea deal already agreed to by the prosecution and Winner\u2019s lawyers. As the prosecution acknowledged, it is the longest sentence for a journalist\u2019s source in federal court history.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

After listening to the agency\u2019s arguments, and out of an abundance of caution, The Intercept redacted a few pieces of information from the document before publishing it.<\/p>\n

A key phrase that the government wanted withheld was the specific name of the Russian unit identified in the document. The government was particularly insistent on that point.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

But in the indictment of alleged Russian military intelligence operatives that Mueller\u2019s office released last month, the Justice Department revealed the same name: GRU unit 74455. (The unit is also known as the Main Center for Special Technology or GTsST.) The indictment went on to reveal information almost identical to that contained in the document Winner admits to disclosing…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

In the indictment of the alleged Russian intelligence officers, the Special Counsel\u2019s Office describes how the FBI itself tipped off the GRU unit to the U.S. surveillance almost a year before The Intercept published the NSA document.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The federal government kept several states allegedly targeted by hackers in the dark about the specifics of these attacks until The Intercept published its story.<\/p>\n

In fact, the day after The Intercept\u2019s story came out, the Election Assistance Commission \u2014 the federal agency in charge of assisting state election officials \u2014 wrote an urgent bulletin to states, calling the report \u201ccredible\u201d and urging state officials to read it. The EAC then provided advice on how to take action. (The commission, unbelievably, tweeted the hashtag #RealityWinner to promote its bulletin on social media).<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

If you want to understand how the government classifies virtually any information in the national security space, no matter how benign, just read this recent account from BuzzFeed\u2019s Jason Leopold<\/a> about an \u201cillegal animal killing\u201d on CIA property involving a government employee. After Leopold got wind of an Inspector General report on the subject, he filed a FOIA request for more information. The CIA stonewalled him and withheld the IG report on the incident in full, claiming it would \u201charm national security\u201d to release it \u2014 or even to disclose the type of animal that was killed.<\/p>\n

So Leopold sued. Three years later, the government finally relented and revealed that the animal in question was a deer. The rest of the report remains classified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photo by Dustin Chambers for The Intercept — Reality Winner walks out of the courthouse in Augusta, Ga., after her sentencing on Aug. 23, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/23\/reality-winner-sentenced-leak-election-hacking The real Deep State… WHISTLEBLOWER REALITY WINNER was officially sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday, after a federal judge rubber-stamped a plea deal already agreed to by the prosecution and Winner\u2019s lawyers. 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