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2018-06-20 Home Front: WoT

Ex-CIA engineer charged with massive leak to WikiLeaks

[POLITICO] A former CIA computer engineer has been indicted on charges he criminal masterminded what appears to be the largest leak of classified information in the spy agency’s history.

Joshua Schulte, 29, was charged in a new grand jury indictment with providing WikiLeaks with a massive trove of U.S. government hacking tools that the online publisher posted in March 2017, the Justice Department announced on Monday.

Schulte was previously facing child pornography charges in federal court in New York, but the indictment broadens the case to accuse him of illegally gathering classified information, damaging CIA computers, lying to Sherlocks and numerous other offenses.

In January, attorneys involved in the child porn case revealed in court that Schulte was the target of a major investigation into WikiLeaks’ release of a CIA collection known as "Vault 7."

The Justice Department’s news release announcing Schulte’s indictment does not mention WikiLeaks by name, signaling that it has not been charged in the case. There was no mention of any other individuals being charged.

Attorneys for Schulte declined to comment.

The new charges make Schulte the fourth individual to face charges related to classified leaks since President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
took office and vowed a crackdown on leaks.

Posted by Fred 2018-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Someone should leave a bungee cord in his cell.

Posted by gorb 2018-06-20 01:17|| 2018-06-20 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if these leakers are viewed by the public as saints or sinners (in this case the child pron part notwithstanding). Are they viewed as whistleblowers on a mission to correct a wrong or traitors?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-20 08:23|| 2018-06-20 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I heard that somewhere...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-20 08:52|| 2018-06-20 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Terrorists and revolutionaries are inversely "romantic" to the distance they are from the observer. More succinctly: they are heroic if they blow up other people and don't rain on My parade.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-20 09:08|| 2018-06-20 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Clown, meet the Clowns in Action....

Posted by DooDahMan 2018-06-20 17:36|| 2018-06-20 17:36|| Front Page Top

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