I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir

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After serving the longest prison sentence ever given to a government-affilated employee for a single count of leaking classified information to an American news outlet, Reality Winner for the first time shares her own story-that of a patriot who dreamed of serving her country.

Reality Winner was a twenty-five-year-old translator for the NSA when she saw a document that she assumed would make headlines: after public silence by the NSA and blatant lies by the Trump administration, the 2016 US election was far from secure. She impulsively printed the document-a breach of NSA protocol-stuffed it into her stockings, left the building, and mailed it to The Intercept, which promptly informed the NSA and led to Winner's arrest. Now, for the first time-after two films and a Broadway play about her-Winner tells her own story: her unusual childhood, which led her to want to serve her country; her reasons for leaking the document; her torturous years in prison. This is a bold, brave book about the risk one woman took to protect her country and the price she paid for it.

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A brilliant linguist, devout patriot, voracious reader, and fitness and yoga enthusiast from South Texas, Reality Winner was twenty-five and a US Air Force veteran working at the NSA when she leaked a classified document containing revelations about the 2016 US presidential election. Today she is a CrossFit coach who lives in South Texas and is studying to become a licensed veterinary technologist.