that s important not just for what possible effect it could have had, intelligence officials are alls telling me russia is certain to attack future u.s. elections. okay, we have them coming up, 2018th, 20 when the. that s important. let s talk about the hacker, now, the leaker, i should say a. contractor working for the nsa, 25 years old, apparently accessed this classified do you mean, printed it out and shared wit a journalist. they shared wit another contractor to ask if it was a valid document and then that contractor shared it with his or her bosses to let them know that this was out there and then when they did an investigation, they were able trace it back to this leaker in part based on a very simple fact t. image of the document had a crease in it, which seemed to show it had been printed out. they looked at how many people had printed out this document. it wasn t very many. through some good defective work we were able to trace it back to this leaker, who now faces serious ch