Winner-Davis told the Daily News she was stunned when she learned of the charges, adding that her daughter had voiced disagreement with President Trump but "never anything raging at all".
If convicted, victor faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $250,000, according to court documents. She was arrested at her Georgia home on June 3 and charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. Victor charged with leaking US government secrets to a reporter poses no flight risk if she's released from pre-trial confinement, her parents said Wednesday, June 7, 2017, though they fear prosecutors will seek to use the case to send a tough message from the Trump administration. U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps denied bond Thursday for 25-year-old Reality Winner. The Department of Justice said she printed and improperly removed the classified information on May 9 and then mailed it a few days later.
It is unknown what happened to the thumb drive. At one point she wrote, "I want to burn the White House down ... find somewhere in Kurdistan to live".
Prosecutors said they also found the names of three known Islamic extremists in Winner's notebook, reported Reuters.
It's the same charge federal authorities used to arrest victor, a government contractor and former Air Force linguist, after FBI agents interviewed her and searched her Augusta home Saturday.
Solari said prosecutors were not trying to link her to terrorism, however.
"The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer", Solari told the judge, according to the AP.
As The Washington Post previously reported, victor had recently moved to Augusta, Ga., after taking a job with security subcontractor Pluribus International.
Winner posted under a pseudonym, Sara Winners, but didn't seem concerned with concealing her identity, using a photo of herself as a profile picture and posting a selfie in February. The Justice Department announced that victor had been arrested about an hour before the story was published on Monday.
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An FBI affidavit says victor confessed to copying and mailing the classified report when agents searched her home last Saturday.
Victor told authorities, according to Solari, that she was "mad about what she had recently seen in the media" and that she "wanted to set the facts right", CNN reported. Winner, is being held for federal authorities at the Lincoln County, Ga., jail.
Repeating numerous same pleas they've made during media interviews this week, Winner's parents told the judge their daughter was a patriot and upstanding citizen who posed no danger to the United States.
Winner's lawyer Titus Thomas Nichols had told the Daily News that his client, whose alleged leak was published by The Intercept on Monday, should be released because she is not likely to reoffend and has no criminal record. Prosecutors don't think victor is a jihadist or terrorist sympathizer, they say that before she left the military, she inserted an external hard drive into a top-secret computer there. "She will do whatever you tell her to do if you grant her bond".
Billie Winner-Davis, left, and her husband Gary Davis, parents of accused NSA leaker Reality Leigh Winner, arrive at the U.S. District Courthouse Thursday.
"I think they're going to try to make an example out of her because of the political climate right now", Billie Winner-Davis said.
Prosecutors also said that during a phone conversation with her mother while in custody, which was recorded, victor said, "Mom, those documents".
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