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U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools
The Washington Post ^ | May 15, 2018 | Shane Harris

Posted on 05/15/2018 2:30:29 PM PDT by Brown Deer

Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, is believed to have provided the agency’s top-secret information to WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors acknowledged in a hearing in January. The anti-secrecy group published the code under the label “Vault 7” in March 2017. It was one of the most significant and potentially damaging leaks in the CIA’s history, exposing secret cyberweapons and spying techniques that might be used against the United States, according to current and former intelligence officials.

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United States v. Schulte (1:17-cr-00548)

District Court, S.D. New York:

docket/6359557/united-states-v-schulte/

1 posted on 05/15/2018 2:30:29 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655466/posts


2 posted on 05/15/2018 2:36:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: bitt
Joshua Schulte
Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
Greater New York City AreaComputer Software

Software Engineer
Central Intelligence Agency
May 2010 – November 2016 (6 years 7 months)Washington D.C. Metro Area

3 posted on 05/15/2018 2:36:53 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer

Lock him up!


4 posted on 05/15/2018 2:37:52 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: Brown Deer
Till November 2016...interesting timeline

Let's see....What else happened in November of 2016.

5 posted on 05/15/2018 2:38:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Meh, vault 7 was a CIA collection of tools and techniques where they could DO cyber attacks and hacks and blame it on some other country.

Im glad this frame up tool was exposed and there is no legitimate use for it. This crap is how we get “Russians hacked the voting machines”...”Guccifer stole Hillary’s emails” etc.

Blaming another nation who is innocent of the crime is simply a way to gin up wars and strife that are unjustified.


6 posted on 05/15/2018 2:39:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Brown Deer; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

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7 posted on 05/15/2018 2:42:49 PM PDT by bitt (t)
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To: Brown Deer

Wonder how many Compost”S so called writers, editors, publishers and big shots are CIA Spooks of some sort?


8 posted on 05/15/2018 2:46:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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A software engineer looking just like this guy was found dead very recently.......


9 posted on 05/15/2018 2:51:54 PM PDT by txhurl (World War Q)
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To: Brown Deer

Unfortunately, we cannot believe ANYTHING that comes out of the US DOJ.

Remember all the frame-ups, planted evidence etc?

This man COULD be innocent, or guilty as hell. Until the DOJ is washed clean we should not accept anything they say.


10 posted on 05/15/2018 3:19:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Found dead in a Manhattan jail?

Schulte is currently in a Manhattan jail on charges of possessing, receiving, and transporting child pornography, according to an indictment filed last September. He has pleaded not guilty.
11 posted on 05/15/2018 3:20:05 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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It was one of the most significant and potentially damaging leaks in the CIA’s history, exposing secret cyberweapons and spying techniques that might be used against the United States, according to current and former intelligence officials.

By the time Wikileaks had it, it was probably out in the wild already.

12 posted on 05/15/2018 3:42:41 PM PDT by Fedora
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Hired by Bloomberg for his software chops? Or some other reason.


13 posted on 05/15/2018 3:44:43 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: DesertRhino

Yup


14 posted on 05/15/2018 4:49:06 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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“By the time Wikileaks had it, it was probably out in the wild already.”

Considering the incompetence we've seen in government, over and over and over and over again, is anyone ever still surprised by anything any government agency screws up? It wouldn't be difficult to believe that not only was it widely distributed already ‘in the wild’, but that it had actually been altered and reintroduced into CIA computers already.

15 posted on 05/15/2018 5:44:37 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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That sounds like a CIA frame job. They play dirty.


16 posted on 05/15/2018 7:19:47 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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“It was one of the most significant and potentially damaging leaks in the CIA’s history”

that’s what I’ve been saying all along, and yet when WikiLeaks first published all of this nearly two years ago, there was barely a yawn from the leftist fake stream media because they had no publication bandwidth left over after all of it being used up all of the time to try to prevent Trump from being elected ...


17 posted on 05/15/2018 8:40:50 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: for-q-clinton

“Lock him up!”

No! EXECUTE him!

EXECUTE bradley manning.

EXECUTE snowden.

EXECUTE that little ex Airforce bimbo with the stupid name.

EXECUTE bergdahl.


18 posted on 05/15/2018 8:51:41 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Fedora

Let’s not forget that these are the same folks who give surface to air missiles to jihadis.

It was probably sold on the black market within 24 hours of completion.


19 posted on 05/15/2018 10:03:27 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes, he knew that Hillary was not going to be able to provide cover.


20 posted on 05/15/2018 10:20:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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