Reality Winner Wanted to 'Burn Down The White House,' Pledge Allegiance to Taliban

Prosecutors argued that the only thing Winner could do if she were released on bail is be recruited by the nation’s enemies.

Based on evidence seized from her home, federal prosecutors detailed Winner's alleged plans to burn down the White House and travel to Afghanistan, pledging her allegiance to the Taliban.

They said in recorded jailhouse calls, she told her mother how to play her side of the story in the media— as someone who was scared she’d disappear from an interrogation room in her Augusta home after Saturday’s raid.

BREAKING: Alleged NSA leaker Reality Winner denied bail. Prosecution: she also download info from classified computer using thumb drive.

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) June 8, 2017

More: The thumb drive was used while Winner was serving in the Air Force. The thumb drive has not been found.

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Judge said Reality Winner seems to have a fascination with the Middle East and Islamic terrorism. That concerned the judge.

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) June 8, 2017

Prosecutors said a phone call to her sister expressed Winner’s confidence in how to play the court during her bond hearing.

“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.

Prosecutors said she also instructed family members to transfer $30,000 into her mother’s account so she’d appear poor enough for a court-appointed attorney.