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2020-02-05 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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'Espionage trial begins for Klingon Wikileaker Josh Schulte
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 [MAIL] The espionage trial for a former CIA worker who was charged with leaking secrets published by WikiLeaks in 2017, began in New York on Tuesday.
Assistant US Attorney David Denton pointed at 30-year-old Joshua Adam Schulte in a Manhattan courtroom as he blamed him for the massive leak of secrets that was published by WikiLeaks in March 2017.
'This case is about the single biggest leak of classified information in the history of the CIA,' Denton said.
The leak was 'instantly devastating' to America's interests abroad, he said, because it exposed CIA operatives, brought intelligence gathering to a halt and left allies wondering whether the US could be trusted with sensitive information.
Years of work by the agency 'went up in smoke,' he said.
And he accused Schulte of continuing to try to leak secrets after his arrest from his jail cell by smuggling in a contraband cellphone and creating encrypted email and secret social media accounts.
'Joshua Schulte violated his oath to safeguard our country,' Denton said. 'He did it because he was angry and disgruntled at work.'
Sabrina Shroff, Schulte's defense lawyer, countered Denton's arguments by portraying the CIA as inept at securing its most sensitive files and said Schulte was an 'easy target' to try to blame because he 'antagonized almost every person there' before quitting for a $200,000-a-year position at a company in New York. 
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