Ex-CIA engineer tells judge he's incarcerated like an animal

The Washington Times ^ | JANUARY 24, 2021 | LARRY NEUMEISTER

[E. Pluribus Unum]

NEW YORK (AP) - A former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says it’s cruel and unusual punishment that he’s awaiting trial in solitary confinement, housed in a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals.”

Joshua Schulte, 32, has asked a Manhattan federal judge to force the federal Bureau of Prisons to improve conditions at the Metropolitan Correction Center, where he has been held for over two years under highly restrictive conditions usually reserved for terrorism defendants.

In court papers Tuesday, Schulte maintained he is held in conditions “below that of impoverished persons living in third world countries.”

“It is barbaric and inhumane to lock human beings into boxes for years and years - it is a punishment worse than death,” the court filing said.

A message seeking comment was sent to the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice.

Last year, a jury deadlocked on espionage charges alleging that Schulte stole a massive trove of the agency’s hacking tools and gave it to the organization that publishes news leaks. He was convicted of lesser charges of contempt of court and making false statements.

He is scheduled for another trial on espionage charges in June in what was said to be the largest leak in CIA history involving classified information. Afterward, he faces a separate trial on child pornography charges. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

In his 20s, Schulte, originally from Lubbock, Texas, worked as a coder at the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where digital sleuths design computer code to spy on foreign adversaries.

[pacificus]

It’s very sick, but hard to deny that fbi does corrupt things, like infiltrate us political campaigns, conduct illegal criminal interviews with subjects without counsel present, falsifying 302 interview documents, provide falsified evidence to fisa courts, leaking top secret communications to media, paying spies to try and use sex to get subjects to say things that are not true, threatening subjects with criminal charges against family members for phantom crimes...

FBI is corrupt from ceiling to floor...

Their cockroaches probably have cockroaches!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The paranoid left who screamed about how no one needed guns or walls, have now surrounded themselves with guns and walls

To be fair, they said WE didn't need guns or walls.

They never included themselves in that "we."

[gcparent]

I would have begged to be executed.

[oldvirginian]

“FBI is corrupt from ceiling to floor...”

It has been corrupt since day 1.
J Edgar Hoover kept his position atop the then small agency using blackmail files on every single person in the then nascent swamp.
Three guesses as to what agency compiled those files.

The FBI has never been a clean, incorruptible organization.

[metmom]

off topic but a reminder about the lying hypocrites on the left- The paranoid left who screamed about how no one needed guns or walls, have now surrounded themselves with guns and walls

Well, like everything else, they decided it for us and exempted themselves.

[piasa]

Assange won’t face charges over role in devastating CIA leak
6/2/2019, 8:15:18 PM · by Libloather · 41 replies
Politico ^ | 6/02/19 | NATASHA BERTRAND
The Justice Department has decided not to charge Julian Assange for his role in exposing some of the CIA’s most secret spying tools, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case. It’s a move that has surprised national security experts and some former officials, given prosecutors’ recent decision to aggressively go after the WikiLeaks founder on more controversial Espionage Act charges that some legal experts said would not hold up in court. The decision also means that Assange will not face punishment for publishing one of the CIA’s most potent arsenals of digital code used...