In this June 6, 2017 image made from video, Billie Winner-Davis, left, the mother of Reality Leigh Winner, and her stepfather Gary Davis, speak to media about their daughter in east Augusta, Ga. Winner... (Associated Press) 
 
 AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a young woman charged with leaking classified U.S. documents to remain jailed until her trial after prosecutors argued Thursday she might possess more stolen government secrets. 
 
 Prosecutors also said 25-year-old Reality Winner might try to flee the U.S. if released on bond. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari told the judge Winner had written in a notebook: "I want to burn the White House Down ... find somewhere in Kurdistan to live. Ha-ha!" 
 
 Wearing an orange jumpsuit and leg shackles, Winner pleaded not guilty in U.S. district court to charges that she illegally retained and transmitted national defense information. The federal crime carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if she's convicted. 
 
 The former Air Force linguist, who speaks Arabic and Farsi and had a top-secret security clearance, was working as a government contractor in Augusta when she copied and mailed a classified report containing top-secret material to an online news organization, prosecutors say. 
 
 Authorities haven't described the report or named the news outlet. But the Justice Department announced Winner's arrest Monday as The Intercept reported it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report suggesting Russian hackers attacked a U.S. voting software supplier before last year's presidential election. The NSA report was dated May 5, the same as the document Winner is charged with leaking. 
 
 Prosecutors warned U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps that Winner might have more stolen secrets. Solari said investigators have learned Winner inserted a portable hard drive in a top-secret Air Force computer before she left the military last year. She said authorities don't know what happened to the drive or what was on it. 
 
 Solari said Winner's laptop also contained software that could enable her to access online black-markets and buy items — such as a fake ID or passport — without revealing her identity or location. 
 
 "We don't know how much more she knows and how much more she remembers," Solari said. "But we do know she's very intelligent. So she's got a lot of valuable information in her head." 
 
 Winner's mother and stepfather told the judge she had no criminal history and they would use their 20-acre home in Kingsville, Texas, to finance her bond with confidence she would never run. 
 
 "Because my client is a millennial and she knows how to use technology, that's somehow proof of evil intent," said Titus Nichols, Winner's defense attorney. "The government is scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill." 
 
 Solari argued that Winner isn't the upstanding young woman her parents believe her to be. She said that during one of her jailhouse phone calls, which were recorded, Winner said she planned to "play that card: being pretty, white and cute." 
 
 The judge said he was worried about what happened to the portable hard drive prosecutors mentioned, as well as references Winner had made in her notebook about the Middle East. He also mentioned her written comment about burning the White House. 
 
 "Whether that's a jest or not, it still concerns me," Epps said. 
 
 Solari cautioned that prosecutors were not trying to link Winner to terrorism. 
 
 "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. 
 
 An FBI affidavit says Winner confessed to copying and mailing the classified report when agents searched her home last Saturday. They seized items including cellphones, computers and Winner's passport. 
 
 Solari said Winner also confessed to her mother during a recorded jailhouse phone call, saying: "Mom, those documents. I screwed up." 

 Intelligence contractor Reality Leigh Winner pleaded not guilty to charges that she leaked a classified National Security Agency report to the media on June 8, and was denied bail. Winner faces up to 10 years in prison, if convicted. (Reuters) 
 
 A federal judge on Thursday denied bail to Reality Leigh Winner, the 25-year-old Georgia woman accused of leaking classified information to the media, after prosecutors argued she remains a flight risk, a threat to the public and could possibly leak more government documents. 
 
 Winner, a National Security Agency contractor and former Air Force linguist, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to a federal charge of gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, a felony offense under the Espionage and Censorship Act, according to the Associated Press. 
 
 She is the first person charged with leaking classified information during the Trump administration, which has called repeatedly for investigations into media reports on leaked intelligence. If convicted, Winner could face up to 10 years in prison. 
 
 Authorities have not identified the contents of the leaked paperwork or named the news outlet that received it, but the charges were made public Monday, shortly after the Intercept published a story about an NSA report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. 
 
 [The easy trail that led the feds to Reality Winner, alleged source of NSA leak] 
 
 At the bail hearing Thursday, prosecutors told U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps that they had uncovered additional information, including what they described as “disturbing” notebook entries, that made Winner a flight risk and danger to the public if she is released before trial. 
 
 “We don’t know how much more she knows and how much more she remembers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari said, reported the AP. “But we do know she’s very intelligent. So she’s got a lot of valuable information in her head.” 
 
 
 
 Reality Winner exits the Augusta Courthouse on June 8 in Augusta, Ga. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) 
 
 Solari told the judge that Winner may be in possession of more top-secret intelligence. While still serving in the Air Force, Winner inserted a portable hard drive into a military computer, Solari said investigators have learned, according to the AP. Authorities don’t know what was saved to the drive or where it is now. 
 
 Comments Solari said Winner wrote in a notebook also concerned the judge: “I want to burn the White House Down … find somewhere in Kurdistan to live. Ha-ha!” 
 
 Prosecutors said they also found the names of three known Islamist extremists in Winner’s notebook, reported Reuters. As an Air Force linguist, Winner learned to speak Arabic and Farsi. She served for six years and worked with a unit of Afghans, which brought her joy, her parents told the Huffington Post. 
 
 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, Winner had recently moved to Augusta, Ga., after taking a job with security subcontractor Pluribus International. There, she taught yoga, practiced CrossFit and tweeted about her agitation with President Trump. 
 
 Winner, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, spoke little during the hearing except to enter her plea. 
 
 Solari said in court Thursday that Winner had admitted to FBI agents after her arrest Saturday that she shared the classified report, reported CNN. 
 
 Winner 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. Solari also said that Winner confessed to her mother during a recorded phone call from jail that she “screwed up.” 
 
 [What we know about Reality Winner, the contractor accused of leaking an NSA document] 
 
 Repeating many of the 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. They offered to pay Winner’s bond with their 20-acre home in Texas and assured the judge she wouldn’t flee if released. 
 
 “Your honor, my daughter is a good girl,” Winner’s stepfather, Gary Davis, told the judge, according to Reuters. “She will do whatever you tell her to do if you grant her bond.” 
 
 
 
 Billie Winner-Davis and her husband, Gary Davis, parents of accused NSA leaker Reality Leigh Winner, arrive at the U.S. District Courthouse Thursday. (Chris Aluka Berry/European Pressphoto Agency) 
 
 But ultimately, the judge denied the request, citing her notebook musings on the Middle East and comment about burning down the White House as unsettling. 
 
 “Whether that’s a jest or not, it still concerns me,” the judge said, according to the AP. 
 
 Winner’s attorney, Titus Nichols, said in court that his client’s status as a technology savvy millennial is being used unfairly against her. 
 
 “The government is scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill,” Nichols said, reported the AP. 
 
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 AUGUSTA, Georgia — The intelligence industry contractor accused of giving journalists a top-secret report about Russian interference in the U.S. election pleaded not guilty in court Thursday — as federal prosecutors suggested that she may have had plans to leak more classified information. 
 
 Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old government contractor who was working with the National Security Agency, pleaded not guilty to one count of "willful retention and transmission of national defense information” during a detention hearing in Augusta, Georgia, Thursday afternoon. 
 
 Winner was denied bail Thursday afternoon pending trial. She said nothing as she was led away in shackles and an orange jumpsuit. 
 
 Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari said in court that Winner admitted she had leaked the top secret document "to a particular news agency she admired" — and said "she was underwhelmed with what WikiLeaks had to offer." 
 
 "She couldn't understand why this document hadn't been leaked already," Solari said. 
 
 Prosecutors added that Winner allegedly had access to the dark web and had set up burner email accounts. 
 
 Agents found two notebooks in Winner’s home, according to the prosecution. 
 
 In one, prosecutors allege that she wrote, "I want to burn the White House down." 
 
 On a page in one of the notebooks, prosecutors said, she listed the names of several Taliban and al Qaeda leaders, including Osama Bin Laden. 
 
 In the dramatic hearing, Solari argued that Winner should not be released on bail and that she was not simply an Air Force veteran and yoga instructor caught up in a horrible mistake — but someone who had taken definite steps to disclose classified information. 
 
 Solari said Winner had searched online to find out whether or not top secret computers detected when flash drives were inserted in them. 
 
 The government alleges that Winner did just that — insert a flash drive into a top secret computer while she worked in the Air Force. The drive, or any information that was downloaded, has not been located. 
 
 "She would undoubtedly be a target of recruitment from our adversaries," Solari told Judge Brian Epps. 
 
 Reality Leigh Winner appears at a detention hearing in this courtroom sketch. Richard Miller 
 
 Titus Nichols, Winner's defense attorney, argued that the government was heavy on insinuations but low on facts and were "making a mountain out of a molehill." 
 
 "Simply plugging a flash drive into a computer is not downright frightening," Nichols said. 
 
 Prosecutors also said that during a recorded phone conversation with her mother, Winner said, "Mom, those documents. I screwed up." 
 
 Solari stressed that Winner referred to "documents" in the plural, and that federal agents were looking to see whether she may have stolen other classified information. 
 
 Winner’s lawyer had told NBC News on Wednesday that she would enter a not guilty plea. 
 
 "My client is innocent until proven guilty and we plan to enter a plea of not guilty," defense attorney Nichols told NBC News Wednesday afternoon. 
 
 Winner was indicted by a grand jury on one count of willful retention and transmission of national defense information earlier Wednesday, according to court documents. 
 
 She was being held in a Lincoln County jail while awaiting her detention hearing. 
 
 In court Thursday, Winner's parents testified about her character as a judge determined whether or not she would be released on bail. 
 
 Her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told NBC News on Tuesday that Winner "would not jeopardize anybody’s safety" and was "terrified" when she returned to her home in Augusta on Saturday to find federal agents waiting for her. 
 
 Billie Winner-Davis and her husband, Gary Davis, parents of Reality Leigh Winner, arrive at the U.S. District Courthouse on June 8 in Augusta, Georgia. Chris Aluka Berry / EPA 
 
 She said that despite the allegations against her daughter, she remains "a proud mom ... I have every reason to be proud of that girl." 
 
 Her mother cried continuously after Winner was denied bail. 
 
 Winner was arrested Saturday, but the Justice Department announced she had been taken into custody on Sunday, barely an hour after online publication The Intercept published a report containing the highly classified NSA document. 
 
 The publication’s report described new details about Russian efforts to hack voting systems in the United States a week prior to the 2016 presidential election. 
 
 While the document doesn’t say the hacking changed any votes, the publication said it "raises the possibility that Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system, with disconcertingly uncertain results." 
 
 The criminal complaint against Winner did not link the charge against her with the story, but a senior federal official confirmed to NBC News that Winner is the accused leaker of the document published by The Intercept. The NSA has a large facility in Georgia. 
 
 Gabe Gutierrez reported from Augusta, Georgia, and Daniella Silva from New York.
– Alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner was denied bail Thursday after prosecutors warned that she might have more secrets to release—including those stored only in her head. Winner, 25, was shackled during her appearance in the federal courtroom in Augusta, Ga., where she pleaded not guilty to illegally transmitting national defense information, the AP reports. "We don't know how much more she knows and how much more she remembers," assistant US Attorney Jennifer Solari told the judge. "But we do know she's very intelligent. So she's got a lot of valuable information in her head." Solari said Winner inserted a flash drive into a computer while serving in the Air Force, and authorities don't know where it is now. Solari also said investigators had found "disturbing" comments in one of Winner's notebooks, including: "I want to burn the White House down." She said Winner also wrote down the names of extremists including Osama bin Laden, though she stressed that prosecutors are not trying to link Winner to terrorism. During the hearing, Winner's parents testified to her good character, and defense attorney Titus Nichols accused prosecutors of "making a mountain out of a molehill," NBC News reports. "Simply plugging a flash drive into a computer is not downright frightening," he said. The judge decided to deny bail, citing the White House comment, the Washington Post reports. "Whether that’s a jest or not, it still concerns me," he said.