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CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison (zdnet.com)
US prosecutors are preparing new charges against a former CIA coder who was indicted earlier this year in June for leaking classified CIA material to WikiLeaks, in what later become known as the Vault7 leaks. From a report: According to new court documents filed late Wednesday, October 31, US prosecutors plan to file three new charges against Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking more classified data while in detention at the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Prosecutors say they first learned of Schulte's behavior back in May, when they found out that "Schulte had distributed the Protected Search Warrant Materials to his family members for purposes of dissemination to other third parties, including members of the media." The prosecution held a court hearing in May and initially warned the suspect about his actions, a warning they found Schulte ignored. The US government says that "in or about early October 2018, the Government learned that Schulte was using one or more smuggled contraband cellphones to communicate clandestinely with third parties outside of the MCC." A search of his housing unit performed by FBI agents revealed "multiple contraband cellphones (including at least one cellphone used by Schulte that is protected with significant encryption); approximately 13 email and social media accounts (including encrypted email accounts); and other electronic devices."
Good for him!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
I guess he never heard the advice that if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Hopefully some soviets will do the same. May all those complicit in domestic spying and surveillance get what is coming to them while this man lives to see freedom and the rewards he rightly deserves for remaining loyal to The People of the United States of America.
God I hate that word.
"Look everyone! I made my first web page! I'm a coder now!"
This dude is a beast. I've been to prison. It's hard to get one phone in let alone multiple with good encryption. He is not working alone and whoever he's working with has skills.
So someone who literally has access to the CIAs treasure trove of exploits (vault7) somehow manages to not be able to cover his tracks with child porn? This smells of planted evidence either to obtain information already known but procured in a non admissible way or to do a character assassination. Don't get me wrong, its not that I don't believe someone in the CIA looks at kiddie porn. Its just that I don't believe they'd be so easily caught for it when idiots who know very little about computers hide this stuff.
Apparently it's not a crazy rare occurrence for a prisoner (Schulte) to have not one but two contraband cell phones ("and other electronic devices") that the prisoner can gab with the outside world with. One has to have a certain amount of respect for that amount of hutzpah and tenacity to accomplish that.
That boy is a leakin' fool. Hell, he'll climb a tree to leak when he could just stand on the ground and not leak. Yes sir, ain't no stoppin' him. He'll be leakin' till the day he dies, I reckon. And then he'll probably leak some more in heaven!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I agree.
I just think we have different opinions about the head in question.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There is a point where US Citizens are supposed to know what their business of government is doing, for it is the peoples business as the founders established.
One man's hero is another man's traitor. Guess where the highest concentration of smart TVs and iDevices is? Right here in the US. Anyone care to bet that the CIA wouldn't use this stuff for domestic spying, outside of their mandate and outside the law?
This kind of thing needs to be exposed and brought to light, just like MK-ULTRA and COINTELPRO needed to be outed in the 1970s. The leaker's main mistake was not going to a non-extradition country before starting to sing like a canary.
A charge of treason means we have to be actively at war with the country he helped aid. But nah you can't be bothered to actually do some reading.
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Sadly you are correct, but along with the bad, good can happen. Many publicly noted changes have happened in the NSA, FBI and CIA and other government branches. This guy caused change, and that was fine, but now he wants revenge, and this requires a new change in the position of his imprisonment. while he can no longer be sent to an off-site, he can be placed in full confinement for 23 hrs a day for the rest of his charges.
We should have learned from the election that good and bad things happen. sadly the bad might have eroded all the good he might have done.
I vote for 23 hr. solitary confinement for his entire stay in the prison system
or
a manual prison where there are no electronics ( just books ). except for the PA system.
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How do you know what the fuck his motives are? Also: how very American of you to call for cruel and inhumane punishment.
There's nothing wrong with the CIA having powerful tools. It is to the benefit of the nation if they do. Releasing them was an act of treason, plain and simple.
I don't have to, disclosure and breaking the rules have been done, he kept disclosing.
the first time, he was given simple punishment.
the second time, if he is found guilty as a traitor, his information should prove some value, therefore
if he wants some freedom, he will have to cough up everything he knows. otherwise, it's a very long and slow time for him.
and the crime is treason, the highest crime in a nation, can't do much worse than that. murder is an offense to the state government, treason is to the nation.
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So the classified materials he leaked were: "Protected Search Warrant Materials". If i understand correctly, the entirety of his search warrant was secret. And, he's being charged with leaking, so the "secrets" are already out there. So, it's secret because it's *not* secret. This smells rather "Catch-22" to me.