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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 |
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