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Hacking to an online news outlet. the 25-year-old now faces ten years behind bars. >> cnn's laura jarrett is live in washington with more on this woman and what was in the documents, laura. >> reporter: john, the document at the center of this case is a classified report from the national security agency detailing how a russian military intelligence unit tried to hack into voting systems here in the u.s. just days before last year's presidential election. sources tell us that this classified report that the federal prosecutor in the crosshairs here allegedly leaked is the same one described in...

John mccain and other republicans who considered what the russians did, attempting to interfere in our lec as an attack. why haven't they taken steps to retaliate, safeguard or democratic system. that's a separate system from whether it actually received the result. there's no indication the russians actually tilted the election in favor of donald trump, though it seems he tried. yet his ego and those of his advisers seem to get in the way of dealing with this substance and doing something about it. >> although, maggie, this goes further than anything we heard. the revelation she revealed to i...

You know there's always a fine line or often a fine line i should say between leakers and whistleblowers. she really wasn't blowing the whistle on the waste, fraud or abuse, it's information that's interesting, but it's honestly information that probably would have been turned over to the senate and house investigations into russian interference in the election anyway, might have become public eventually under that light. while i do think the white house clearly wants a crackdown on leaks and especially leaks embarrassing to the president i think this particular case falls outside of the kind ...

Would have the security clearance in the first place to do what she did. hey, trace. >> hey, neil. the suspect, reality winner, the department of justice says she was arrested on saturday, which was one day after a leak. nsa document appeared on the news website, the intercept. the document alleges that moscow tried to hack one u.s. voting software supplier just days before last november's election. it also accuses russia of sending fishing e-mails to more than 100 u.s. election officials. there's no evidence the alleged russian hacks were successful. according to the arrest warrant, reality w...

A whistle blower. what is she being accused of doing? >> mailing a classified report to the online publication, "the intercept." the document detailed how they attempted to hack into the voting system and they gave us new details about how they went after russian election officials and the prosecutors claim that "the intercept" sent a copy of the document to the government to verify the authenticity and there was a crease, indicating that it had been printed and folded, which was visible in the copy. investigators determined that only six people had actually printed the document. that winner w...