The Georgia intelligence contractor accused of leaking Top Secret documents from the NSA was a Bernie Sanders supporter who hated Donald Trump.

Reality Leigh Winner, a decorated former US Air Force linguist who held Top Secret government clearance and speaks the languages of Afghanistan, made multiple posts on social media attacking Trump and joking about Russia's influence in the election.

Under the alias Sara Winners, she made several tweets with the hashtag #NotMyPresident and #Recount 2016 and even wrote that 'Trump is a c**t' and a 'piece of s**t' in a series of angry tweets over the past few months.

The outspoken Sanders supporter also posted a signed picture of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, thanking her for her service.

Winner's mother Billie Winner-Davis conceded her daughter 'not a fan of Trump' but said that she and the family were still in shock she could have leaked secret NSA documents.

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Reality Leigh Winner, a decorated former US Air Force linguist who held Top Secret government clearance, is accused of leaking NSA intelligence

When she wasn't tweeting about Trump, Winner spent much of her free time working out

It has since been revealed that she was an outspoken opponent of Trump who once branded the president a c**t

'I never thought this would be something she would do,' she told the Guardian. 'I mean, she has expressed to me that she is not a fan of Trump – but she's not someone who would go and riot or picket.'

'She's very passionate. Very passionate about her views and things like that, but she's never to my knowledge been active in politics or any of that.'

But her daughter's social media posts reveal that Winner was becoming increasingly frustrated and angry with the president.

During the run up to presidential election, Winner - a keen bodybuilder and fitness fanatic - had joked about the Kremlin's influence, saying: 'On a positive note, this Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport.'

After Trump declared he'd defeated Hillary Clinton, the distraught 25-year-old wrote: 'Well. People suck.'

She also posted a signed picture of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, thanking her for her service

Bernie Sanders-supporting Reality served as a linguist in the US Air Force since 2013 and spoke Pashto, Farsi and Dari. Pictured here in uniform with her mother Billie

'I listened to you daily, and your podcast kept me sane,' Winner wrote at the FiveThirtyEight podcast on November 9. 'What the heck #betrayed #disillusioned.'

'Privjet Russia' tweeted Winner, a vegan, the following day, which translates to 'Hi Russia.'

She also retweeted Sanders' statement calling the president racist and xenophobic.

Winner has also frequently trolled the president, tweeting at him directly.

In response to a Trump tweet about immigrants coming from seven Muslim-majority countries being 'SO DANGEROUS', Winner asked: 'have you ever even met an Iranian?'

After the U.S. Department of Agriculture began blacking out public information, Winner tweeted '#RESISTANCE'.

Her frustration appears to have come to a head in May when Winner, a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation - a defense contractor that does work for the NSA - allegedly downloaded documents revealing that Russia had hacked an electoral voting machine.

She then posted the intel to online news site The Intercept who published the findings last month.

The leaked documents seemed to show Russia carried out cyber attacks on companies which produce software used during elections.

But the NSA were quickly able to link the leak back to Winner after The Intercept presented them with stolen documents for verification.

NSA officers were able to determine, by analyzing creases in the pages and a secret series of 'tracking dots' on the paper, that they had been printed at the NSA's Augusta, Georgia offices.

Only six people had access to those printers so from there, it was simply a case of narrowing down the suspects. After agents found communication between Winner and the new site, she was arrested.

Winner is now facing up to ten years in jail if found guilty on charged of removing classified material from a government facility.

When Winner wasn't posting about politics, her social media paints her as something of a loner.

Her life appears to have revolved around her frequent body building and work outs, her vegan diet, and her pets. She has countless selfies of herself working out at the gym, yet few photos of herself with friends.

The 25-year-old, who lists herself as 'single' recently held a 'cativersary' - complete with birthday cake for her cat Mina and regularly posted about her dog. She also revealed she had been 'feeling so down.'

The intelligent US Air Force vet had just returned from a solo 'spiritual journey' to Belize in Central America when she was arrested.

In one of her vacation snaps, Winner - who appears to be very close with her family including sister Britty - revealed she had recently lost her step father Gary Winner who she considered her dad.

'There is nothing that can fix the hole in my heart that you left behind,' she wrote.

'I still don't know who I am without you here or how to keep moving forward without the one person who believed unconditionally in everything I want to do in life.

'Old habits die hard, I still find myself making time to call you in the evenings or jotting down notes or stories to tell you next time we speak. It's like I have a little piece of you here with me. I miss you, Dad.'

Billie Winner-Davis said that her daughter never discussed her work, and that her family didn't know much information about her job as a government contractor.

She said Winner who had been a linguist for the U.S. Air Force and can speak middle eastern languages Farsi, Dari and Pashto - which are mostly spoken in Iran and Afghanistan. She won a commendation medal for he work as a Cryptologic Language Analyst before she left service in December 2016 at rank of senior airman.

When she wasn't posting about politics, Winner's social media paints her as something of a loner whose main focus was on bodybuilding

Arrested: The government has charged Reality Leigh Winner (pictured), 25, a Georgia intelligence contractor, with passing secret documents to the media

She is the first person to have charges leveled against her in connection with leaks related to Russian election hacking

Winner was employed by contractor Pluribus International Corporation in February, and had been working with access to top secret documents since then

Winner's mother shared that her daughter, from Kingsville, Texas, had called on Sunday to ask to have her pets relocated after her arrest.

She added that her daughter, while fiercely intelligent, had decided college was not for her as she's had enough of school, and had enlisted in the air force.

Smarts appear to run in the family as her sister Britty is studying for a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at Michigan State University.

Winner was an employee at Pluribus International Corporation based out of Alexandria, Virginia. She was then posted to a government agency in Georgia. She worked at the facility since February 13, and held Top Secret security clearance.

Pluribus is an analytical and engineering service that provides its services to federal, defense, security and the intelligence community on a contractual basis. The company has 22 locations across the world, including three in the Republic of Korea.

Her mother revealed that she is unsure if her daughter will be able to seek bond and that she has a hearing on Thursday.

'I don't know what they're alleging,' she told told The Daily Beast. 'I don't know who she might have sent it to. [DOJ] were very vague.

President Trump (above on Monday) has repeatedly railed against leaks, and administration members have called on congressional committees to focus on alleged Russian interference

An NSA document published by The Intercept reveals a Russian-backed effort to target local government officials and U.S. firms as part of the campaign

'They said she mishandled and released documents that she shouldn't have, but we had no idea what it pertained to or who.'

Winner's case has divided opinion, with some branding her a 'traitor' but others hailing her as a hero.

It bares resemblance to the case of Chelsea Manning, a transgender US Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 for leaking nearly three-quarters of a million classified or sensitive military materials to Wikileaks.

She said at the time she'd been moved to release the secret information because she 'believed I was going to help people'. She wanted to provide a real record of the realities of war, and give a human face to the casualties.

Manning was sentenced to 35 years at the maximum-security U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth but had her sentence commuted by then-President Obama to just seven years, and she was freed on May 17.

Just as with Winner, public reaction to news Manning leaked the document was mixed. Some hailed her as a 21st-century Tiananmen Square Tank Man after some believe the documents may have triggered the Arab Spring, while others denounced her as a traitor.

'Winner is a contractor with Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government agency facility in Georgia,' according to a government criminal complaint.

Winner's mother Billie Winner-Davis (pictured with husband Gary) said she was shocked to learn of her mother's arrest, but revealed she is 'very passionate about her views'

Winner has countless selfies of herself working out but few pictures of herself with friends on her social media

'She has been employed at the facility since on or about February 13, and has held a Top Secret clearance during that time.

'On or about May 9, Winner printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information from an intelligence community agency, and unlawfully retained it.'

'Approximately a few days later, Winner unlawfully transmitted by mail the intelligence reporting to an online news outlet,' according to the release.

'FBI has arrested and charged the woman they say leaked a Top Secret document to The Intercept,' NBC News reported, citing a federal official.

The charges against Winner coincided with a report by The Intercept that a top secret NSA document revealed efforts by Russian military intelligence to conduct a spear phishing cyber attack on a company and on local voter registration.

'Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors… executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions,' according to the document the Intercept published.

'The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to… launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.'

The feds got a warrant for Winner's arrest

The affidavit mentions a 'U.S. Government Agency' believed to be the NSA

According to the FBI, 'Winner agreed to talk with agents during the execution of the warrant. During that conversation, Winner admitted intentionally identifying and printing the classified intelligence reporting at issue despite not having a 'need to know,' and with knowledge that the intelligence reporting was classified.'

Without a lawyer present, 'Winner further admitted removing the classified intelligence reporting from her office space, retaining it, and mailing it from Augusta, Georgia, to the news outlet, which she knew was not authorized to receive or possess the documents,' according to the government.

According to the warrant, 'WINNER was an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and held a Top Secret clearance.'

The Intercept story states that the documents raise the possibility that Russian-based hackers 'may have breached at least some elements of the voting system,' bringing the investigation of election interference to a new level.

Previous analyses by the intelligence community have stated that Russia was behind hacking into the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chair in an effort to impact the election, but have not provided evidence of a successful campaign to affect the vote count or voter rolls.

An affidavit by an FBI agent in support of an arrest warrant states that on June 1, the FBI was notified by a government agency that it had been contacted by an unnamed news outlet in connection to a story.

After examining the Top Secret document, investigators found pages appeared to be folded or creased – indicating it was printed and carried out of a 'secured space' by hand.

An audit concluded that six individuals had printed the document – including Winner.

Upon being interviewed, Winner admitted printing it without having a 'need to know.'

According to the Intercept, the NSA sought redactions after being contacted, some of which were accepted.

The NSA document is titled 'Spear-Phishing campaign TTPs used Against U.S. and Foreign Government Political Entities

It states that 'It is unknown if the GRU (Russian military intelligence) was able to successfully compromise any of the entities targeted as part of this campaign. While this [redacted] cyber espionage program utilized some techniques that were similar to other Russian GRU cyber operations units, this activity demonstrated several characteristics that distinguish it from another major GRU spear-phishing program known as [redacted].'

Fort Gordon in Georgia houses a cybserspace operation training institution, called the Cyber Center of Excellence.

An unclassified intelligence community report concluded that Russia conducted a campaign during the presidential election 'to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.'

President Trump has repeatedly railed against leaks, and administration members have called on congressional committees to focus not just on alleged Russian interference, but 'unmasking' of individuals in leaked governments and leak investigations.

'It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the media,' Trump tweeted last week.