Leaker of secret report on Russian hacking gets 5 years

By MEG KINNARD
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga.  — A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors, who called it the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media.
Reality Winner, 26, pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national security information. The former Air Force tra