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by giraffe_lady 917 days ago
The Reality Winner one was especially fucked because IIRC they actually had a trained professional with experience in high stakes leaks on staff, they just didn't use them for her for some reason. Recent Kerry Howley book spent a significant chunk of time on this, it was infuriating.

Reality Winner did not need to get busted. They almost certainly would have realized she did it but with the right lawyers she could have made it. Intercept's hubris and mismanagement did her in.

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Great info, I had not heard that, it was needed. You cost someone years of their lives by that. The "authorities" always try to burry the details of the actual improper behavior behind the scandal of the leak, usually successfully.