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Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com)
schwit1 shares a report from The Washington Post: Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a former CIA employee with violations of the Espionage Act (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source) and related crimes in connection with the leak last year of a collection of hacking tools that the agency used for spy operations overseas.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment with illegally gathering and transmitting national defense information and other related counts in connection with what is considered to be one of the most significant leaks in CIA history. The indictment accused Schulte of causing sensitive information to be transmitted to an organization, which is not named in the indictment but is thought to be WikiLeaks.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment with illegally gathering and transmitting national defense information and other related counts in connection with what is considered to be one of the most significant leaks in CIA history. The indictment accused Schulte of causing sensitive information to be transmitted to an organization, which is not named in the indictment but is thought to be WikiLeaks.
Another quality first post by your resident anonymous coward.
they "found" some kiddie-porn oh his computer.
The message is clear: don't fuck with the CIA.
He is lucky he did not end up like Michael Hastings. yet.
this news is old already
Will James Comey say there wasn't intent?
Despite the law saying no intent is needed to commit a felony?
That's China QUAKING IN ITS SANDALS under the MIGHT OF TRUMP! BAM! #MAGA #MOFOS
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Federal prosecutors charged a former CIA employee Monday with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes in connection with the leak last year of a collection of hacking tools that the agency used for spy operations overseas.
Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment with illegally gathering and transmitting national defense information and related counts in connection with what is considered to be one of the most significant leaks in CIA history.
The indictment accused Schulte of causing sensitive information to be transmitted to an organization that is not named in the indictment but is thought to be WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks posted the hacking tools online last year in a release it called “Vault 7.” Prosecutors alleged Schulte stole the information in 2016.
Schulte had long been a suspect of investigators exploring the leak, but before Monday, he had been held on separate child pornography charges. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Cockman said in a statement that investigators looking into Schulte found the pornography in his residence. His personal computer, federal prosecutors alleged, held more than 10,000 images and videos of such material, protected under three layers of passwords.
Schulte was arrested on charges stemming from the porn in August 2017.
“As alleged, Schulte utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims,” William F. Cockring Jr., the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York troll office, said in a statement. “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. To further endanger those around him, Schulte allegedly received, possessed, and transmitted thousands of child pornographic photos and videos.”
An attorney for Schulte did not respond to an email seeking comment Monday night. In a statement reviewed by The Washington Post previously, Schulte claimed that he reported “incompetent management and bureaucracy” at the CIA to the agency’s inspector general and to a congressional oversight committee. He asserted that cast him as disgruntled and that when he left the CIA, he became a suspect in the leak as “the only one to have recently departed [the CIA engineering group] on poor terms.”
The indictment accuses Schulte, 29, of exceeding his authorized access to CIA computer systems and altering systems to delete records of his activities and deny others access. Added together, the charges against him carry a statutory maximum penalty of 135 years in prison. Some officials have compared the leak of which he is accused to that of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Blowden, who also revealed details about U.S. capabilities to spy on computers and phones around the world.
Schulte worked in the CIA’s Engineering Development Group, according to people with knowledge of his employment history as well as the group’s role in developing cyberweapons. He left the intelligence community in 2016 and took a job in the private sector, according to a statement he wrote that was reviewed by The Post.
The evidence that prosecutors have connecting Schulte to the leak of information was not immediately clear. The WikiLeaks organization noted his indictment on Twitter, adding, “Perhaps reflecting weakness of CIA case, also charged for ‘criminal copyright infringement’ for sharing TV shows, child porn & lying to FBI.”
...it will be revealed that he wants to transition to a woman.
Why is it most spies are secretly cross dressers?
Please stop!! You going to make me cum!!
Can't wait to see that cheeto-faced puffy-eyed colluding shitgibbon in tiny handcuffs.
And when it happens, I'll be blowing fireworks off all fucking night.
If this guy were a Democrat, the FBI would make excuses for him and offer him an immunity deal.
"In a release, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said unlawful disclosure of classified intelligence “can pose a grave threat to our national security, potentially endangering the safety of all Americans.”
"William F. Sweeney Jr., head of the New York FBI office, said Schulte “utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims. 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.”
Classified information on her personal email servers in violation of the Espionage Act (no children intent is not required).
And according to the recent FBI report, her servers were hacked and the classified information was accessed by a foreign entity.
Not too mention Clinton did not have approval from the State Department to use a personal server.
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CIA Fails To Guard The Gate. Again.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
HRC committed violations but she was NOT the only one, found prosecutors, and so could not be prosecuted under the 10th Amendment. (Lying faggot oh_my)
bu83h of retarded
And hanged if convicted!
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I guess Oh-My-Trump-Traitor here is too dumb to realize he's going to prison for life and Hillary isn't going to be prosecuted, lol. What a fucking Republican INCEL, haha. They'll never know what's really going on, lol.
Jesus, Beau, stop being a fucking moron. The Washington post doesn't have a paywall. Yes, if you're stupid enough to let it store cookies indefinitely in your browser, it does pop up a nag screen.
That's not a paywall. That's a tax on technologically illiterate folks.
How the fuck did you get hired to edit for a technology site?
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Good thing this will never happen. Let's get those encryption back doors into the hands of the CIA.
This is the guy who wrote on twitter that Manning should be shot. On the face of it, it seems strange that he should turn around and do exactly the same as Manning a few years later.
Though, for the CIA, it probably doesn't matter much if he didn't do it, as long as the public can be convinced he did it - and that he's a pedophile to boot.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Comey was using personal email for FBI business (for convenience and to get around IT issues like Clinton) when he rat-fucked our election with that phoney "but her emails" nonsense.
It's even worse when you realize that the FBI had already caught Moscow Donald committing treason, colluding with Russia's attack on America.
Now that Trump has surrendered to North Korea on behalf of his puppet master Vladimir Putin we see the end game of this treason.
On the plus side, Trump's Russian agent campaign manager is locked up in prison as we speak, so there is a little bit of hope despite the rat-fuckers and traitors.
Is this treason, a capital crime?
hmmm. If he is one of many that said that about manning, it is odd.
Personally, I agree with trying and then shooting manning for treason. But I find it interesting that he would turn against America. Very weird.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
the world needs more brave people like you, who can stand up to the psychomaths in the cia, pentagon, white house, and let the world know of all their crimes and how they attack their allies.
I'm curious how they " discovered " the alleged child porn if it was encrypted under three layers of passwords. I find it unlikely he would have voluntarily given up that information considering the punishment for possession of said material is far greater than failing to divulge a password ( or three ) to investigators. I also find it unlikely that, considering the work he did for the Agency, said material would be so easily discovered on anything he owns since he would have much better insight as to what methods they can utilize to infiltrate and / or gain access to targeted systems.
I suppose since it's the CIA we're talking about, nothing would be off limits ( unofficially ) in how they conduct their own investigations since they tend to operate without much oversight. ( That statement should scare the hell out of anyone. ) My gut feeling is it's a warning shot for any others who might consider similar actions against the Agency in the future.
Do anything to expose or embarrass us and we will bury you forever. ( Even if we have to fabricate the evidence ourselves. )
You are only half right... Hillary isn't going to be charged.... Neither is Trump. We KNOW she broke the law but so far there isn't any evidence he did.
If folks like you keep up the hysteria, Trump is going to be in office until about noon on January 20, 2025 with a congress that keeps sliding further right every 2 years. Then where will you be?
The question is : how did a person of Manafort's character come to be the campaign chair?. Whoever brought him on board - and it's reasonable to assume the candidate had significant influence over the decision - either failed to any due diligence, or chose the candidate despite (or perhaps precisely because of) his dodgy background.
Some officials have compared the leak of which he is accused to that of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Blowden, who also revealed details about U.S. capabilities to spy on computers and phones around the world.
Never heard of the bloke.
The funny thing is, if Obama (and no, he doesn't get a pass - he set the tone early by announcing Hillary!'s felonious server was "nothing" - probably because emails from Obama himself were on it...) and Lynch had pressed charges against Hillary!, she probably would have been forced out of the campaign.
The Democrats likely would have drafted Joe Biden at that point.
And Joe Biden would have won the Rust Belt states that Trump squeaked past Hillary in, such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, because he isn't downright hated in the places.
So by defending the WORST FUCKING CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE US, OBAMA ENSURED THE SECOND-WORST WOULD BE PRESIDENT AFTER HIM.
Do you really think Obama didn't set the tone at the very least - if he didn't actively direct a coverup? Just look back at the dirty political tricks in Obama's past - he makes Bill Clinton look like a kindergarten class president when it comes to dirty tricks. Chicago politicians play for keeps.
Make an example out of him and charge him with treason.
But the King Of Lies, Windy, is decent and honest? Don't make me laugh.
The proof is in all you constant lies, and calling everyone else a liar without ever backing it up with proof. You're just about as dishonest as anyone could possibly get.
Half the numbers in this post you just made up. You knew they were made up because I showed you the actual numbers last time you pulled the same lies. You admitted one of them, but not the other, and still refused to explain where the made up numbers came from.
That was just one of many lies you keep trying to spread. Or things you just make up, to sound like you know something, when you clearly don't.
You constantly throw around accusations of lying at other people as a distraction for your own lies, but never show a single one about anyone else.
Care to show even a single post where I haven't been decent or honest?
Early judicial interpretation of the meaning of treason in terms of levying war was conditioned by the partisan struggles of the early nineteenth century, which involved the treason trials of Aaron Burr and his associates. In Ex parte Bollman,1479 which involved two of Burr’s confederates, Chief Justice Marshall, speaking for himself and three other Justices, confined the meaning of levying war to the actual waging of war. “However agitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed. So far has this principle been carried, that . . . it has been determined that the actual enlistment of men to serve against the government does not amount to levying war.” Chief Justice Marshall was careful, however, to state that the Court did not mean that no person could be guilty of this crime who had not appeared in arms against the country. “On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors. But there must be an actual assembling of men, for the treasonable purpose, to constitute a levying of war.”
Wikileaks has clearly not taken up arms or declared war on America, you're full of shit as usual.
I enjoy pointing out your stupidity
Early judicial interpretation of the meaning of treason in terms of levying war was conditioned by the partisan struggles of the early nineteenth century, which involved the treason trials of Aaron Burr and his associates. In Ex parte Bollman,1479 which involved two of Burr’s confederates, Chief Justice Marshall, speaking for himself and three other Justices, confined the meaning of levying war to the actual waging of war. “However agitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed. So far has this principle been carried, that . . . it has been determined that the actual enlistment of men to serve against the government does not amount to levying war.” Chief Justice Marshall was careful, however, to state that the Court did not mean that no person could be guilty of this crime who had not appeared in arms against the country. “On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors. But there must be an actual assembling of men, for the treasonable purpose, to constitute a levying of war.”
Wikileaks has clearly not taken up arms or declared war on America, you're full of shit as usual.
If any pecker pics show up it's gotta be Carlos Danger!
OK, ok, they're both true, don't tell anyone.