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A former NSA contractor who was once sentenced in Maryland faces the "longest sentence" ever behind bars for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media, prosecutors said in a court filing.

Before The Intercept even published its bombshell story Monday, proving that Russian hackers sought to interfere in the U.S. election last year, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman who allegedly provided the classified information to the online news outlet was in federal custody, having been grabbed by agents at her home in Georgia over the weekend after a trip to the grocery store. Her case is a cautionary tale for would be leakers and journalists. The risks are extremely high, and both she