NSA leaker hid classified report on Russian hacking in pantyhose

The former Air Force linguist says she screwed up royally...
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The accused National Security Agency leaker Reality Leigh Winner said she sneaked the classified documents out of the building in her pantyhose, it has been revealed.

Winner, 25, was an NSA contractor accused of leaking a classified report that exposed a Russian hacking attempt on U.S. voter registration databases and election officials during the 2016 presidential elections.

Winner was arrested and charged with gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act in June, and a transcript of her interview with the FBI was filed in court on Wednesday and obtained by Politico.

In the interview, Winner initially denied removing the documents from the building in Augusta, Georgia, saying she printed out the documents and kept them at her desk before they were burned.

After they put pressure on Winner saying she was the leading suspect behind the leak, an FBI agent asked how she got the document out of the office.

“Folded in half in my pantyhose,” Winner said.

Winner, who said she was upset that her office had Fox News playing in the background, thought the leak would just be “one drop in the bucket” given other news emerging about the Russian interference in the elections.