Reality Winner never really had a chance to explain herself. After the young whistleblower leaked a classified 2017 National Security Agency bulletin about Russian election-meddling attempts to the Intercept, whose botched reporting allowed the feds to track her down, the perception of the otherwise low-key Winner escaped all containment. The government, which charged her under the historically censorious Espionage Act, painted her as a terrorist sympathizer who desired to sabotage the system from within. Liberal and conservative pundits alike dismissed her as a childish dreamer and America-hating traitor acting upon her “Trump derangement syndrome.” The verbatim transcript of her encounter with and arrest by the FBI was turned into a Broadway play and then a movie with Sydney Sweeney. And to this day, even though her federal incarceration is finally over, Winner’s not allowed to earn any money from the promotion of her now famous name and story; as she told Texas Public Radio, she can’t even get a free copy of her own memoir, I Am Not Your Enemy, which published Tuesday. Not to mention that she had to submit the initial draft to her old employers at the NSA for screening.
In this light, however, I Am Not Your Enemy is all the more poignant, sincere, and felt. A first-time author earning no royalties, the now-33-year-old Winner writes clearly and sharply about her extraordinary life and addresses the pressing questions of just why she did things as she did—why she printed...
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