AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman who leaked a secret report on Russian hacking of U.S. voting systems could get a tough sentence.

Reality Winner was preparing to face a judge Thursday in Augusta, Georgia. Prosecutors recommended five years and three months, which would be the longest sentence ever given for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media.

The 26-year-old former National Security Agency contractor pleaded guilty in June to copying a classified U.S. report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization.

Her arrest was announced the same day The Intercept reported on a secret NSA document. It detailed Russian government efforts to penetrate a Florida-based supplier of voting software and the accounts of election officials ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. intelligence agencies later confirmed Russian meddling.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentencing-russia-hacking-report-794330

Republicans in the House of Representatives have knocked heads with Rosenstein over thousands of documents related to the genesis of the FBI counterintelligence probe that predated Mueller’s appointment and focused on the Trump campaign.

The DOJ has produced some documents, withheld others on grounds that they could jeopardize an ongoing investigation, and heavily redacted others. Congressional Republicans point to the unquestionable oversight authority given Congress by Article I of the Constitution and contend the DOJ is interfering with that authority.

Trump suggested at some point that he would order Rosenstein to give the House what it wants.

“At the right time, I think I’m going to have to do the documents,” he said. “I didn’t want to. But I think I’m gonna have to. There’s such corruption.”

Trump also said federal prosecutors should turn some of their attention to crimes he says 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton committed as secretary of state in her handling of classified information.

“And this Justice Department does nothing about it,” he said.

https://www.lifezette.com/2018/08/sessions-never-took-control-of-doj-trump-says-may-order-docs-be-given-to-congress/

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9/7 or 9/8/18 is 210 days after Rachel Brand resigned depending on whether it was officially 2/9 or 2/10/18