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On russia's election meddling. brian todd has been looking into her history. brian, what are you finding out? >> wolf, reality winter's mother says she is a yoga instructor and loves animals and is not political. tonight we learned she did engage in some political activity. tweeted against trump multiple times and followed edward snowden on twitter. but her lawyer says that does not make her a traitor. tonight this unassuming 25-year-old is behind bars in georgia. there was leak that the department of justice calls a threat to justice security. she is accused of removing classified material fr...

Leaker, reality winter, didn't do such a great job of covering her tracks. what are you hearing about that? >> right. "the washington post" is reporting that intercept offers specific guidelines for whistleblowers to follow when providing them with documents and other information. specific security procedures that intercept tells people they need to follow to cover themselves. post reports that reality winter didn't follow many, if any, of those guidelines. >> i assume the national security agencies doing a full review brian of their procedures, how this woman got this top secret security clea...

Officials is that russia will target u.s. elections again. >> the leaker, a woman whose legal name is reality winter, what do know about her? >> 25-year-old contractor working in augusta, georgia, close to a big nsa facility down there. really how the authorities found her is interesting. she apparently printed out this classified nsa document. shared it -- the intercept says anonymously with them. when that intercept reporter got it, that reporter then showed it to another contractor and said, is this real? that contractor shared it with his bosses, in effect, who looked at it and drew some c...

Tonight as winter faces charges that could land her in prison for ten years, those who know her are trying to figure out why she did what she allegedly did. on twitter she appears to have followed edward snowden, wikileaks and accounts linked to the group anonymous but also a decorated airman in the u.s. air force. a commendation shown to cnn by winter's mother showing she helped geo locate 120 enemy combatants. her mother said she was a linguist in the air force speaking three languages. >> the only thing we know is she wanted this material to be public. >> winters' mother tells cnn her daugh...

Reality winter, she was working for this government contractor, had top-secret clearance, former air force enlisted person, she now faces ten years in prison for leaking this document. >> isn't that unbelievable, it's incredible how some of these leakers have romanticized this whole notion. they've romanticized this notion about leaking these classified documents. she had top security, she knew what she was doing violated the law. when she was approached and arrested over the weekend, she was approached by the officials and said "yes i did it, i published it" she knew that it was criminal. it'...