CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For the last six years, Reality Winner -- whose story is well-documented -- has been paying the price for being a traitor.
At least, that’s what our government -- and many of its citizens -- have called her.
For others, however, it is more complicated than that.
Winner was 25 years old and working in Georgia for a National Security Agency contractor, a job that gave her top-secret clearance.
It was there that she gained access to an intelligence report that had to do with Russia’s role in trying to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. She would eventually leak be arrested for leaking that report to the media.
Before any of that, though, the Kingsville native spent six years serving our country in the Air Force.
“I served the American people, and I served to defend the Constitution of the United States, and as someone who worked in military intelligence, there was the constant struggle of having to double-think everything; what I knew that was really going on, versus what the average American knew or understood," she told 3NEWS anchor Mike Gillaspia. "I don’t justify what I did, and even the best of intent can’t mask the fact that I did commit a serious crime.”
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