06-06-2017 04:49 via yahoo.com

Contractor charged with leaking document about U.S. election hacking: sources

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organization that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to the media.Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was charged with removing classified material from a government facility located in Georgia.The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top-secret document
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