Reality Winner has been sentenced to over 5 years in behind bars for leaking an NSA document to The Intercept about alleged Russian spearphishing in the US election system. It’s the longest ever prison sentence for a media source in US history. TheRealNews.com speaks to Shadowproof’s Kevin Gosztola about the trial and the double-standards in how the US government prosecutes leakers.
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