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Posted: 2017-06-06T17:31:28Z | Updated: 2017-06-06T21:57:22Z

An alarming document that may prove Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was leaked by a 25-year-old woman who grew up in a small town in Texas, the Department of Justice alleged this week.

Reality Winner, a federal contractor with Pluribus International Corp. in Augusta, Georgia, was arrested Saturday under charges of violating the Espionage Act by removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, a criminal complaint stated .

On Saturday, FBI Special Agent Justin Garrick met with Winner at her home in Augusta. During their talks, 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 report was classified, according to the affidavit.

Winner further acknowledged that she was aware of the contents of the intelligence reporting and that she knew the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.

Heres what we know so far about Winner.

Winner graduated from Henrietta M. King High School in Kingsville, Texas, before joining the Air Force. She can speak Farsi, Dari and Pashto, Billie Davis-Winner, Winners mother, told The Guardian .

A senior U.S. official told HuffPost that its normal for young Air Force recruits with strong language and listening skills to go through intensive training in multiple languages. Winner spent six years in the military as a linguist, her mother said, before landing a job as an NSA contractor.

Winners mother also told The Guardian that her daughter is a loving person. Everyone who meets her loves her, and shes kind, Davis-Winner said.

Davis-Winner did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.

Winners social media posts paint a picture of a woman preoccupied with physical fitness and virulently opposed to the policies of President Donald Trump .

In one Instagram post, she described her struggles with an eating disorder.

In November 2014, my life was miserable, Winner wrote. I had so many #fitnessgoals but my happiness was completely based off bringing that number in the scale lower and lower. Paired with an eating disorder largely based off of OCD, I could count on one hand what foods were safe to eat.

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