Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s The bulk of the sentence imposed on joshua schulte, 35, came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of cia secrets by wikileaks in 2017 He has been jailed since 2018. Joshua schulte, 35, was convicted of cyber espionage in july 2022 for leaking a massive amount of classified data to wikileaks, the site dedicated to publishing classified documents for. Joshua schulte, a former cia employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with wikileaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the us southern district of new york on thursday. Joshua schulte, who chose to defend himself at a new york city retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the cia and fbi made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a.
A former cia software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information and possessing child sexual abuse material. Today, september 7th 2017, wikileaks publishes four secret documents from the protego project of the cia, along with 37 related documents (proprietary hardware/software manuals from microchip technology inc.) The project was maintained between 2014 and 2015. In 2014, fbi and cia officials lobbied the white house to designate wikileaks as an information broker to allow for more investigative tools against it and according to former officials potentially paving the way for its prosecution.
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