Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks
Joshua Schulte, who prosecutors said was responsible for agency’s largest data breach, also guilty of possessing child abuse images
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.
The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for “crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography”, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The judge did not impose a life sentence as sought by prosecutors.
Joshua Schulte was convicted in July 2022 on four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents, after giving classified materials to the whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak. Last August, a judge mostly upheld the conviction.
I'm not saying it's not real, but the addition of the child abuse images sort of has the feel of "sprinkle a little crack on him"-CIA Edition.
120Typically conspiracy theories come with a kernel of truth, like he always maintained that the CSAM was planted. Only he didn’t. Because he was into CSAM. Don’t muddy the waters unless there’s reason to because there’s zero fucking reason to defend someone collecting that shit.
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WikiLeaks, Snowden fleeing to Russia, Greenwald dialing up the pro-Kremlin talking-points over the years, the call-and-response "Russia, if you're listening," the hand-delivered letter from Trump to Putin by Rand Paul, the 4th of July closed-door Kremlin meeting by Republican congressman, the Trump tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian money laundered through the NRA, the strange Russian women amidst right-wing extremist groups. Manafort, Flynn, Stone regurgitating Kremlin talking-points while the Kremlin is telling RT to air as many Tucker Carlson clips as possible, Trump saying he trusts Putin's word against the unprecedented consensus of his own intelligence agencies and advisors, all the while trying to withdraw from NATO that otherwise has bipartisan support. I probably haven't even scratched the surface..
I think I counted a half dozen or so individuals arrested by the FBI in the past year or two trying to offload secrets to Russia.
If anyone hasn't listened to the Ultra podcast regarding the Nazi infiltration of America under the direction of Hitler to sow division under ideological and racial grounds in America, while successfully corrupting many Congressmen at the time... The parallels couldn't be more striking to today.
28It will never stop disappointing me when someone looks down on Snowden after all he gave up for your benefit.
36Yeah. Nothing precludes Russia from simply being the enemy of the US and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Of course they'd love Snowden. Doesn't mean he was a Russian plant from the get go. That's just conspiracy theory nonsense. I'll give OP that Russia is probably doing many shady things. But let's not turn everything that favors them into some grand, all-enconpassing, conspiracy. That's how you start to become a whack job. Plenty of things are just happenstance.
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Snowden is not part of this phenomenon
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Looks like Sad Lenin.
5Sucks, man. Thank you for your service.
5Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?
4Thx mate
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Oh yeah cool. So when does Trump get charged with taking nuclear secrets home and the "loosing" the contents during a Saudi golf tournament....
Why are we still talking about this man, allowing him to run for president against the rules of the constitution. People have been jailed for a life time for much much smaller leaks.... But fucking nuclear secrets ... Nah no biggy.
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