The 25-year-old government contractor charged with sharing a secret report on Russian interference in the American presidential election has an Augusta criminal defense attorney who is also a judge advocate general in the U.S. Army. That military connection is how Titus Nichols became Reality Winner’s lawyer.

Winner is being held in federal custody charged with sending a news organization a classified National Security Agency document. She’s an Air Force veteran with top-secret security clearance working for a military contractor in Augusta.