Thread by @jfetzenrausch

Thread about #RealityWinner
1: I’m as leftie as they come. That being said, I’m seeing another wave of “#FreeRealityWinner” hashtags.

2: She was a member of the Intelligence Community (IC) that snuck classified information out of a secure facility in Augusta Georgia and turned them over to a journalist working for The Intercept.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…

3: The IC is very unambiguous about protecting classified information and how to raise concerns.

There’s a right way and wrong way to blow the whistle on wrongdoing within the IC.

citizen.org/article/intell…

4: I’m certain she was briefed more than once in order to get her job, and each brief laid out the consequences of espionage, with a generally incremental increase in the consequences of her actions.

FAQs - SF-312 (NDA)

dni.gov/files/NCSC/doc…

5: Access to classified information is given after three requirements are met:

Eligibility, Need-to-know, and a signed NDA

Nobody is forced to agree to those terms.

6: People can call me naïve, but the process protects classified information first.

Finally, it IS naïve to think someone’s employment dynamic won’t change in any way after whistleblowing, especially illegally.

Reality Winner is living those consequences today.

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