The odd thing about the Reality Winner deal is:

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15. Just curious - but why? Why feel sorry for her? We don't even know her motive.

But she served 5 years in the AF and can speak 3 ME languages, so she is certainly not some unwitting victim.

She may have done similar things before (stole secrets via hard drives and flash drives)

She wrote she wants to burn down the white house and was planning a clandestine trip to afghanistan.

And she plans to use the "cute white girl defense".

"Solari also said a laptop belonging to Winner and seized by federal agents contained software that could enable her to access online black-markets and buy items — such as a fake ID or passport — without revealing her identity or location. In addition to the notebooks and laptops, investigators seized a Defense Department-issued country book on Iran, several electronic devices and a U.S. passport belonging to Winner, according to a search warrant."

"Prosecutors also spent part of Thursday afternoon depicting Ms. Winner as a person with a furtive and troubling side they suggested went well beyond critical Twitter posts. After calling some evidence “downright frightening,” Ms. Solari described pages of notes that Ms. Winner kept that included references to Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden.

"According to Ms. Solari, Ms. Winner also plugged a peculiar query into an internet search engine last year: “Do top secret computers detect when flash drives are inserted?” She later placed such a device, which has not been recovered, into one such computer, Judge Epps noted."

She seems way off to deserve sympathy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/reality-leigh-winner-nsa-secrets-plea.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/09/accused-nsa-leaker-wrote-she-wanted-burn-white-house-down/102671348/

etc etc.