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The Latest: Woman charged with top-secret leak denied bond

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - The Latest on a Georgia woman charged with leaking classified documents to a news organization (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

A judge has ruled that a woman charged with leaking secrets to a reporter will remain jailed until her trial after prosecutors argued that she might possess more stolen intelligence and could try to flee the country.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps denied bond Thursday for 25-year-old Reality Winner. Prosecutor Jennifer Solari says investigators seized a notebook from Winner's house in Augusta, Georgia, and in it, Winner made references about traveling to the Middle East. At one point she wrote, "I want to burn the White House down ... find somewhere in Kurdistan to live. Haha."

Winner worked for a U.S. government contractor in Augusta. She is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Farsi and Arabic. Prosecutors don't think Winner is a jihadist or terrorist sympathizer, they say that before she left the military, she inserted an external hard drive into a top-secret computer there. They say they don't know what happened to it or what it might contain.

Winner's attorney says she should be released and prosecutors are exaggerating the threat she poses.

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1:30 a.m.

The parents of a young woman charged with leaking U.S. government secrets to a reporter say she poses no flight risk if she's released from pre-trial confinement.

The parents of 25-year-old Reality Winner fear prosecutors will use the case to send a tough message from the Trump administration.

Winner is a former Air Force linguist who now works as a U.S. government contractor. She was arrested Saturday by FBI agents on charges that she made copies of a classified report containing top-secret information and mailed it to an online news organization.

A judge has scheduled a hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court to determine whether to allow Winner to be released on bond pending trial. She has been jailed in neighboring Lincoln County since her arrest.

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 remained locked up Tuesday,, June 6 on federal charges that she made copies of classified documents containing top-secret material and mailed them to an online news organization. Before she was charged with leaking U.S. government secrets, Reality Leigh Winner shared sometimes scathing opinions on President Donald Trump and his policies for the whole world to see. (AP Photo/Johnny Clark) The Associated Press
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 remained locked up Tuesday,, June 6 on federal charges that she made copies of classified documents containing top-secret material and mailed them to an online news organization. Before she was charged with leaking U.S. government secrets, Reality Leigh Winner shared sometimes scathing opinions on President Donald Trump and his policies for the whole world to see. (AP Photo/Johnny Clark) The Associated Press
FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before the 2016 presidential election, according to a classified NSA report leaked Monday, June 5, 2017, that suggests election-related hacking penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than previously known. The report, which was published online by The Intercept, does not say whether the hacking had any effect on election results. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) The Associated Press
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