25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner, a federal contractor, was arrested over the weekend and is facing charges that she removed classified material from a government facility and mailed it to a news outlet.

Via Washington Examiner:

A 25-year-old federal contractor is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May. The charges come about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems.

Reality Leigh Winner, of Augusta, Ga., is facing charges that she removed classified material from a government facility and mailed it to a news outlet. She was arrested on Saturday and appeared on the charge Monday.

The announcement comes shortly after The Intercept published a report based on a classified intelligenceindicating the time, Tacq, at which it intends to acquire the channel from the selected DST. All DSTs that are on the same channel as the one being contended for and are within a one-hop distance of the winner SRC respond to the ODSC_ACK by scheduling a channel release to occur at Tacq and broadcast an ODSC release message (“ODSC_REL”) to the neighborhood. The ODSC_REL contains information about the channel to release, the channel release time (set to Tacq), and the identification of the winner SRC that will acquire the channel. If the ODSC_ACKs are received from multiple SRCs before the channel is released, a DST selects the earliest Tacq specified in the received ODSC_ACK as the channel release time. This avoids collisions between the neighboring DST and