Reality Winner: NSA contractor jailed for five years over classified report leak

NSA contractor Reality Winner was sentenced on Thursday to five years and three months in prison for leaking a top-secret document about Russian interference in the US election.

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Winner, 26, was sentenced at a federal court in Georgia after pleading guilty in June as part of a deal with government prosecutors.

She is the first person the Trump administration has charged under the Espionage Act for a document leak.

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