Reality

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4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On June 3, 2017, two FBI agents arrived at the home of Reality Winner, an Arabic language translator with a top secret security clearance. While a team executed a search warrant, the pair gently quizzed the 25-year-old about documents she viewed and whether she may have mishandled classified material. The agents asked Reality whether she sent secret military documents to online journalists who published the leak. As she revealed more and more about her actions, the whistleblower said she felt the government was lying to the American people. The script for the HBO film “Reality” is made entirely from the interrogation during the espionage case. Sydney Sweeney portrays Reality Winner as smoldering with fear and sadness, as Josh Hamilton and Marchánt Davis softly tug the thread on how and why she’d risk everything

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Riders on Aftershow right now, go to patreon.com slash partners in crime
0:06.0	media.
0:07.0	I'm Rebecca LeVoy and this is Crime Riders On.
0:23.0	Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:26.9	culture, other podcasts.
0:28.9	And on this episode, the FBI targeted an NSA translator suspected of leaking classified
0:34.9	documents.
0:35.9	How did they get her to confess during her interrogation?
0:38.9	We'll talk about the HBO film reality.
0:42.9	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of
0:46.9	these are their stories podcast, my husband and love of my life.
0:50.9	Kevin Flynn.
0:51.9	Hello, Kevin.
0:52.9	It's a little too enthusiastic on the love part.
0:54.9	That's on passive aggressive.
0:55.9	Passive aggressive.
0:56.9	Love of my life.
0:57.9	Who keeps forgetting to take out a trash?
1:01.9	Love of my life.
1:03.9	Who keeps leaving the laundry for me because he says that I do it better than everybody
1:07.9	else.
1:08.9	Love of my life.
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