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Reality Winner sentenced to more than 5 years

Reality Winner, a former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization, was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in jail. Bobby Christine, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, said her “purposeful violation put our nation's security at risk."
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