Former U.S. intelligence contractor Reality Winner sentenced Thursday, to more than five years in federal prison… for illegally leaking a top secret NSA report on Russian interference in U.S. elections, and giving that report to The Intercept in 2016.

Winner - the FIRST person sentenced by the Trump administration under the Espionage Act - has received the longest sentence EVER for such a crime.

(SOUNDBITE) U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GA, BOBBY CHRISTINE, SAYING: "It appropriately satisfies the need for both punishment and deterrence in light of the nature and seriousness of the offense." The 26-year-old has already spent nearly two years behind bars.

In 2016, A judge had ordered Winner to be held without bond after prosecutors said she posed a flight risk and public danger, citing what they called "disturbing" comments in her notebook - like, quote "I want to burn the White House down." (SOUNDBITE) U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GA, BOBBY CHRISTINE, SAYING: "She claimed to hate America... She was the quintessential example of an insider threat." Winner had pled guilty in June as part of an agreement with prosecutors that called for a sentence of 63 months.

At the time of the leak, Winner was working with a company that provides analytical services for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

According to two U.S. officials familiar with the case, the leaked document included technical details on what it said were Russian attempts to hack election officials in the U.S. AND a voting-machine company before the presidential election in November 2016.