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Former CIA engineer charged with leaking classified information to WikiLeaks
The Hill ^ | 06/18/18 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 06/18/2018 7:28:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The Justice Department on Monday announced charges against a former CIA computer engineer for allegedly leaking top-secret information on U.S. government hacking tools to WikiLeaks.

In a 13-count superseding indictment, the agency charged Joshua Adam Schulte with illegally gathering classified national defense information and transmitting it to “an organization.” WikiLeaks published the data in March of last year.

“Schulte utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims,” FBI official William Sweeney Jr. said in the release. “As an employee of the CIA, Schulte took an oath to protect this country, but he blatantly endangered it by the transmission of Classified Information."

Prosecutors identified Schulte as a suspect in the leak last month, but did not yet have sufficient evidence to bring charges.

The Justice Department did not name WikiLeaks in a press release about the indictment, but attorneys involved in a child pornography case involving Schulte revealed earlier this year that the 29-year-old was the focus of an investigation into WikiLeaks’ dispersal of classified CIA information.

Schulte is currently in custody on child pornography charges, and is suspected to be behind the leak of CIA information to WIkiLeaks known as “Vault 7,” believed to be one of the largest unauthorized releases of CIA information in history.

The indictment also charges Schulte with lying to investigators, obstruction of justice, theft of government property and transmitting a harmful computer program.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201703; assange; cia; kiddieporn; nsa; pedophile; vault7; wikileaks
White hat? Black hat?

Child porn charges added to prove how evil he is?

Joshua Schulte: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

2. He Is Accused of Housing 10,000 Files of Child Porn on a Server He Created & Maintained, but He Says 50 to 100 People Had Access to It

3. Schulte Graduated from the University of Texas in 2011, Spent a Year at the NSA & Worked at the CIA Until 2016, When He Took a Software Engineer Job at Bloomberg LP

1 posted on 06/18/2018 7:28:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I have no knowledge or opinion on Schulte, but I am sure that mixed in with legit arrests for child porn we are also going to see some where the porn was planted on the victim’s computer.


2 posted on 06/18/2018 7:30:44 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The charge is that he leaked hacking tools to wiki.

Those tools now form the basis of many foreign programs.

Criminal Black Hat.

Fry his ass. He may end up responsible for many deaths.


3 posted on 06/18/2018 7:33:01 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: yesthatjallen

A bigger story is the loss of confidence in our justice system. After politically motivated selective prosecutions of the Trump team, and the hands off treatment of Hillary, Obama and Dems., I can’t trust DOJ/FBI claims and evidence.


4 posted on 06/18/2018 7:36:27 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: yesthatjallen

So if I read this right the Child {Porn has nothing top do with WikiLeaks, they only added that as a supposition that he was leaking it to them and then they to foreign Govs.

In other words trying to tie WikiLeaks to Muh Russia


5 posted on 06/18/2018 7:45:42 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: TruthFactor
I agree.

Selective prosecution puts everything into question which is exactly why I wondered about this case.

It's becoming difficult to know the truth about anything and anyone anymore.

6 posted on 06/18/2018 7:46:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Mariner

Dont you mean clinton?


7 posted on 06/18/2018 7:47:28 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I wonder what kind of “insurance” he had that made him believe he either would never be charged or would get off easy? Does he have an embarrassing list of government officials that had access to the child porn? Does he have a list of people whose computers have been compromised, either drained of info or had info added?


8 posted on 06/18/2018 7:54:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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I would suspect that involving govt agency cases 90% of the time the child porn is planted to guarantee a conviction and since they control the seized computer the suspect will have no defense...a guaranteed kill shot.


9 posted on 06/18/2018 7:58:51 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Or he's guilty.

Who knows. We will likely never know that truth.

Guilty or innocent, he's been neutralize and he won't be giving anyone trouble anymore.

10 posted on 06/18/2018 8:06:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“I am Hillary Clinton.”

Plus the guy for sure didnt have his very own bathroom server that buyers could access the material from.


11 posted on 06/18/2018 8:09:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is railroading 101, throw some illegal porn on someones machine. Same as planting drugs on someone.

Oh yeah the cops never do anything like this crowd will say it never happens. oh except the knobs who cant refute the fbi scandal regarding clinton and trying to screw Trump out of the presidency.

They wpnt sit tgere and make a cognitive connection.


12 posted on 06/18/2018 8:11:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TruthFactor

Bingo.
This guy could be the scapegoat for Podesta for all I trust the FBI.
They have chosen sides.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 8:40:38 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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