Earlier this week a young government contractor named Reality Winner was accused by police of leaking an internal NSA document to news outlet The Intercept. The documents outline the intelligence community's take on Russian efforts to hack a variety of companies responsible for facilitating US election voting. You can read the documents here . Despite what anyone might have to say about the issue on Twitter, an arrest involving an accusation of any crime by any law enforcement agency in any country is not evidence of guilt. Even the most circumspect appraisal of the US justice system will reveal that tens of thousands of individuals are arrested every year only to have those charges *immediately* dismissed by a court, while nearly everyone who actually is *convicted* of a crime in this country has their charges reduced. Even in cases in which individuals have been convicted of the the most serious capitol crimes, courts have been forced to release dozens of individuals after DNA ...