Ex-CIA engineer accused of leaking hacking docs to WikiLeaks charged in...'Vault 7' security breach

Fox News ^ | June 19, 2018 | Gregg Re, Cody Derespina

[familyop]

The ex-CIA software engineer suspected of leaking a massive, highly secret trove of U.S. hacking tools and source code to WikiLeaks has been charged in federal court with a series of Espionage Act violations. Joshua Schulte, 29, allegedly disclosed thousands of top-secret files outlining the extent of the CIA’s cyberwarfare capabilities in an unprecedented breach that triggered an intensive investigation even before WikiLeaks published the information in March 2017.

[libertylover]

Good! Put Mrs. Bill Clinton in the cell next to him for her violations of the Espionage Act.

[Psalm 73]

"...for leaking what one of the largest criminal organizations on the planet is doing illegally to us..."

This is why we have a Congress and a process (as broken as it may seem). We are either a nation of laws, or we are not.
If we are not, then it is time to "water the tree of Liberty" - there is no in-between.

[pas]

That is extreme. He may not have intended to do this. /s

[2CAVTrooper]

Exactly!

This guy along with bradley manning, reality winner, and a few others have each done more damage to our national security than what the Rosenbergs did.

IMO they along with their immediate supervisors should be executed, and the execution be broadcast to every member of the various intelligence agencies as well as members and staff of the house and senate intelligence committees.

[RideForever]

You may have hit upon the primary tool the FBI uses to entrap and compromise their victims; a honeypot server with child porn. Access it accidentally and the FBI owns you. Find that server, look at access logs, and you may have the names of the compromised who should be fired.

[willyd]

They had to leak the methods to provide cover for the fact that they were hacking friendly computers using those methods... I think it is called Plausible deniability.

[VTenigma]

Way past time. But to call for an execution is over the line. How about calling for the CIA to be brought in line with their mandate, or better yet call for the government to be brought in line with the constitution.

[Psalm 73]

I hear ya' - but once you give a "wink and a nod" to stealing/passing on Government secrets - then you've blurred that line.
Maybe it's OK if it doesn't directly endanger regular Army units on the ground, or it's only data relating to weapons systems that aren't yet fielded, or locations of Special Ops units, or.....

[a fool in paradise]

Manning and Bergdahl should’ve been executed for their crimes. It’s the only way to prevent a Communist from pardoning them.

[VTenigma]

I’m not saying punishment isn’t warranted, I’m just saying in the light of what we know of the CIA execution is a step to far.

[tsomer]

I’m with you; this thing stinks to high heaven.

The porno charges are bs cooked up after finding the files on a server he set up in college.

They’re just now bringing charges.
We’ve seen this thing before:government prosecutors fix upon a target, ruin them, defame and then detain them until they cop to a false, but lesser charge. This is about the prosecutor’s public profile.