Link to Affidavit for Reality Winner

The Justice Department published the affidavit for Reality Winner.  It shows several things that are noteworthy:

1.  She said she copied and forwarded the Top Secret document to the news service and she knew that was wrong.
2.  She knew she did not have a need-to-know for the document she took, but downloaded it anyway. One might ask why the network she was on did not notice that she did it.
3.  The document had been folded, indicating it was printed, then folded to not show the contents before it was removed.  In most places I worked in the government it was harder to walk out of a facility with a document than it seemed to be here.

There will undoubtedly be a security review given the circumstances, and it is not going to go well for anyone in the business.