A former CIA computer engineer has been indicted on charges he masterminded what appears to be the largest leak of classified information in the spy agency’s history.
Joshua Schulte, 29, was charged in a new grand jury indictment with providing WikiLeaks with a massive trove of U.S. government hacking tools that the online publisher posted in March 2017, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
Schulte was previously facing child pornography charges in federal court in New York, but the indictment broadens the case to accuse him of illegally gathering classified information, damaging CIA computers, lying to investigators and numerous other offenses.
In January, attorneys involved in the child porn case revealed in court that Schulte
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CIA worker charged with disclosing classified information to Wikileaks
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Suspected CIA leaker tweeted about killing WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning: Report
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Joshua Adam Schulte faces child porn charges but has not been charged in connection with leak of CIA hacking tools, which were posted on the web by WikiLeaks.
Joshua Adam Schulte faces child porn charges but has not been charged in connection with leak of CIA hacking tools, which were posted on the web by WikiLeaks.
Posted by MSNBC on Tuesday, May 15, 2018
1. Authorities Say They Believe Schulte Leaked Documents That Showed the CIA Could Take Over iPhones & Turn Smart TVs Into Surveillance Devices
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3. Schulte Graduated from the University of Texas in 2011, Spent a Year at the NSA & Worked at the CIA Until 2016, When He Took a Software Engineer Job at Bloomberg LP
4. He Wrote About His Libertarian & Anti-Obama Views, Including His Thoughts on Pornography & Privacy, on a Blog While in College
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