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When shes not leaking government secrets shes crushing it at the gym and cursing out the Leader of the Free World.

Reality Leigh Winner, the 25-year-old contractor accused of leaking classified NSA documents, is a die-hard CrossFit competitor who once called President Trump a piece of st, according to reports Tuesday.

Winner who allegedly leaked a classified intelligence report containing Top Secret Level defense info worked out five times a week at a gym in Georgia, according to TMZ.

The Texas-born Air Force vet, who faces up to 10 years in prison, also competed in the 2016 CrossFit Games Southeast regionals and could deadlift heavy weights, the gossip site reported.

She often pumped iron at Epic Ultimate Results in Augusta, GA, where owner Glen Whelan said shes welcome back for now.

Until proven guilty, shes not a leper, he said.

Outside of the gym, Winner often posted passionate left-leaning rants on social media, according to Fox News.

In one Facebook tirade, she slammed Trump over Dakota Pipeline access.

There have been protests for months, at both the drilling site and outside the White House. Im losing my mind. If you voted for this piece of st, explain this, she blasted in February.

Hes lying. Hes blatantly lying and the second largest supply of freshwater in the country is now at risk. #NoDAPL #NeverMyPresident #Resist, she added.

Under the Twitter handle Sara Winners, she followed NSA leaker Edward Snowden, Wikileaks and the hacking group Anonymous.

Winner called Trump an orange fascist in response to a Trump tweet about allowing refugees into the U.S.

She also slammed the president for his immigration policies, tweeting, Have you ever met an Iranian?

She added, Why burn a flag? Donald Trump thinks crosses burn much better.

And on election night , when it became clear Trump would win, she tweeted, Well. People suck.

Raised in Kingsville, Texas, Winner served as an airman first class with the 94th Intelligence Squadron at Fort Meade, Maryland, according to the veteran news site Task & Purpose.

She served in the Air Force as a linguist from 2013 to 2016 and speaks Pashto, Farsi and Dari, according to her mother, Billie Winner-Davis.

Outside of work she works as a yoga instructor. Shes just a normal person, her lawyer, Titus Nichols, told CNN.

Winner was a federal contractor with top secret security clearance. She had been assigned to a US government agency facility in Georgia since February.

She is now being held at a facility in Lincolnton, Georgia, Nichols said.

It was unclear if Reality Winner is her birth name. Her surname apparently comes from her mother, Billie Winner-Davis.

Winner-Davis described her daughter as an athlete who loves animals and has a sister, Brittany, who is studying for a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology, according to the UK Guardian.

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US Charges Contractor With Leaking NSA Document on Russian Hacking Wall Street Journal (subscription) A 25-year-old government contractor was arrested over the weekend and charged with leaking a secret report to a news organization that described some of Russia's election-related hacking activities, according to court papers and U.S. officials briefed ...

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Documents received by The Washington Post indicate the National Security Agency is collecting billions of records a day to track the location of mobile phone users around the world. This bulk collection, performed under the NSAs international surveillance authority, taps into the telephony links of major telecommunications providers including some here in the United States. The NSA collects this location and travel habit data in order to do target development -- to find unknown associates of targets it already knows about. To accomplish this the NSA compiles a vast database of devices and their locations. Most of those collected, by definition, are suspected of no wrongdoing. Officials say they do not purposely collect U.S. phone locations in bulk, but a large number are swept up incidentally. Using these vast location databases, the NSA applies sophisticated analytics techniques to identify what it calls co-travelers unknown associates who might be traveling with, or meeting up with a known target. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS NSA collects 5 billion records a day on cellphones

SOURCE: The National Security Agency, OpenSignal and MIT Media Lab . GRAPHIC: The Washington Post.

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by LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press

NSA officials deny mass surveillance during Utah Olympics (Photo: MGN)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A former top spy agency official who was the target of a government leak investigation says the National Security Agency conducted blanket surveillance in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, according to court documents.

Ex-NSA official Thomas Drake wrote in a declaration released Friday that the NSA collected and stored virtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including the contents of emails and text messages.

"Officials in the NSA and FBI viewed the Salt Lake Olympics Field Op as a golden opportunity to bring together resources from both agencies to experiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance," Drake wrote.

It comes as part of a lawsuit filed by attorney Rocky Anderson, who was the mayor of Salt Lake City during the games held a few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Anderson said the document was disclosed to the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday.

Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden has denied in court documents that such a program existed. Hayden was NSA director from 1999 to 2005.

Current NSA operations director Wayne Murphy said in court documents that NSA surveillance in Salt Lake City was limited to international communications in which at least one participant was reasonably believed to be associated with foreign terrorist groups.

Drake disputed that statement, writing that he spoke with colleagues who worked on the operation and were concerned about its legality. He said he also saw documents showing surveillance equipment being directed to the Utah program.

His declaration was written in support of the former mayor's lawsuit. Anderson said the lawsuit is designed to get more information about what he calls covert, illegal operations.

The NSA has argued the lawsuit's claims are far-fetched speculation about a program that may never have existed. A judge, though, refused a Justice Department push to dismiss the lawsuit in January.

Drake started working for the NSA in 2001 and blew the whistle on what he saw as a wasteful and invasive program. He was later prosecuted for keeping classified information. Most of the charges were dropped before trial in 2011, and he was sentenced to one year of probation.

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Russian hackers attacked a voting software company and election officials across the country right before Election Day, according to a top secret National Security Agency report.

In the NSA's classified report from May 5, the agency detailed how Russian government hackers tried to phish US officials and VR Systems, a technology company that creates election software for eight states: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia.

The timing of the attack happened right before the Election Day, with multiple hacking attempts centered around late October.

The report had been leaked to The Intercept on Monday, and confirmed by CBS News. Russia's cyberattacks and influence on the 2016 presidential election continue to plague the White House, as President Donald Trump sits embroiled with investigations of ties to the Kremlin. Trump has continued to deny reports of any Russian hackers meddling on his behalf, even as the FBI launched a formal investigation into any ties between his campaign and foreign cyberattacks.

The leaked report comes just three days before fired FBI director James Comey is expected to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee about the investigation. Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to deny any nation-state hackers on the country's behalf, insisting that it could have been the work of patriotic Russians, and most recently, a child.

The NSA's report detailed that hackers on behalf of the Russian government posed as an e-voting company to fool government workers into opening emails packed with hidden malware in Microsoft Word documents.

The Russian hackers also pretended to be Google by using the email "noreplyautomaticservice@gmail.com," which they registered on August 24, 2016, according to the report. It would send emails to victims asking them to click on a link that would ultimately phish them. The NSA's report identified seven potential victims so far.

On October 27, 2016, just 12 days before the election, the hackers pretended to be VR Systems with the email address vr.elections@gmail.com, and sent fake user guides to customers on how configure their Windows machines meant for voting. Of course, those were also filled with viruses.

"It is unknown whether the aforementioned spear-phishing deployment successsfully compromised the intended victims, and what potential data could have been accessed," the NSA wrote in its report.

VR Systems didn't respond to requests for comment.

That cyberattack went out to more than 120 different local government organizations, according to the report.

Days before the report leaked, the Department of Justice filed charges against Reality Leigh Winner, a federal contractor working in Georgia, for providing classified materials to a news outlet. She was arrested at her home on Saturday, and appeared in court on Monday afternoon.

According to court documents, the classified report she had leaked was also from May 5. Winner worked for Pluribus International Corporation, an analytical and engineering company that provides services to the NSA, as well as other agencies in the intelligence community.

The NSA didn't respond to requests for comment.

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