A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers - this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winn | dG1fYkl3SElQYlR1Z1E
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00:00 [thud]
00:02 [footsteps]
00:04 [thud]
00:06 If you were to go into a time machine to May 2017
00:09 and turn on any news media, any channel,
00:12 there was one question mark hanging in the air.
00:15 And that one question mark was holding the entire country back.
00:19 I thought with a couple pieces of paper,
00:22 I could bring an end to that crisis.
00:25 [thud]
00:27 And that's how we got here.
00:29 Reality Winner leaked a secret report
00:32 on Russian election hacking to the media
00:35 and will now serve more than five years in prison.
00:38 That's the longest sentence ever imposed for this kind of violation.
00:42 [birds chirping]
00:44 June 3rd started as a wonderful day.
00:48 I drove up to my house.
00:50 I had a car full of groceries.
00:53 And soon as I had closed the door and gone around to the back of the car,
00:57 this unmarked black SUV came up and...
01:02 Well, the reason we're here today is that we have a search warrant for your house.
01:07 Okay.
01:08 Alright. Do you know what this might be about?
01:10 I have no idea.
01:11 Okay. This is about possible mishandling classified information.
01:15 [music]
01:17 Is it over here?
01:18 Yeah.
01:19 [music]
01:21 [dog barking]
01:23 [music]
01:25 [dog barking]
01:27 Reality, we obviously know a lot more than what we're telling you at this point.
01:33 And I think you know a lot more than what you're telling us at this point.
01:37 I didn't realize that it was about to become a four-hour chess game for my life.
01:42 [music]
01:47 (whooshing)