CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison (zdnet.com) 94
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."
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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.
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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 b
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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 na
All Right (Score:4, Insightful)
Good for him!
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Back to your handlers Ivan.
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"Back to your handlers Ivan," says an Anonymous Coward to a user that has been on /. since 2003. No comma was placed after "handlers," a grammatical nuance a native English speaker would be more likely to add.
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No comma was placed after "handlers," a grammatical nuance a native English speaker would be more likely to add.
Not anymore. Modern English teaching says to omit most commas traditionally used, especially for prepositional phrases in prefix and suffix positions and for objects of command sentences like that one.
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It's a comma before a direct address. It shows the difference between talking to someone and about someone.
* You certainly know, Ivan, we are familiar with your handlers.
Without the pre-address comma, the sentence would be ambiguous.
The sentence at issue is also difficult to understand because it is elliptical in that the verb "go" is left out.
*Go back to your handlers, Ivan.
Dumb, or dumber? (Score:2)
I guess he never heard the advice that if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
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I have some degree of sympathy--- the whole concept of being subject to secret criminal prosecution is scary and unfortunate. (A problem I don't know how to handle: when people break the rules about classified things, classified information is likely needed to prove and contextualize it. At the same time, denying people a portion of the normal due process of law and throwing them in jail is a disturbing result).
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Once it's clear you're not going to return from the mission, you might as well do maximum damage.
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and since he wasn't accused of treason, he felt safe to try ( which he did )
now he might have opened that. fed courts title 18 ( I think it's constitutional law article 3 ) is death or another 5 years
it happened in NY and I don't think NY or NJ have treason laws. I know ( or knew )
that Illinois and Rhode Island have them but not sure of anywhere else.
NY has this as a reference but I can't find the place where you can be convicted of treason in the state
https://www.dos.ny.gov/info/co... [ny.gov]
good luck and a valid
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There are levels of prison, some don't even have fences.
https://www.forbes.com/2006/04... [forbes.com]
This guy is gonna find out how deep the hole goes tho.
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I highly doubt hes in a minimum security facility.. just sayin.
Hero (Score:4, Insightful)
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!!!
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People are still so butt hurt over Trump winning that you can't visit a single forum without seeing him mentioned. Unless of course the forum is heavily moderated.
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Why are you replying to your other account?
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The problem is where the line should be drawn. And the tricky bit is that it is a very complicated and nuanced line, and nobody is or can be responsible for drawing it clearly.
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We aren't talking about personal morality, we are talking about government agencies violating the law which governs them and hiding it behind a classified status. The highest ranking entity in the US isn't any of the three branches empowered by the Constitution or their agencies it is The People. Every employee and official of government has a duty and an obligation to the people that pr
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The soviet union gave up the ghost nearly 30 years ago, comrade.
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No, but they all became greedy as fuck.
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And all the communists miraculously became good capitalists over night right?
They weren't really communists in the first place.
Re: Hero (Score:2)
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I agree.
I just think we have different opinions about the head in question.
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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.
"Coder" (Score:2)
"Look everyone! I made my first web page! I'm a coder now!"
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Cereal box spy ring? I know I'm old but not that old. When was the last CBSR distributed?
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Now I feel old too...
Wow! (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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"This dude is a beast. I've been to prison. It's hard to get one phone in let alone multiple with good encryption."
It's hard to cram an iphone8Plus up the ass.
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LOL, I mean I'm sure there are a few lifers that would have no problem... For real though depending on w ho you associate with you may HAVE TO kiester some shit.. No pun intended O.o Like the South Siders, its mandatory for them to shove things in their ass if they get sentenced to hole time for something to smuggle it in the units. Things like phones however come in through the guards, or in minimum security you will literally have inmates break out(walk off the line) and pickup packages they have people l
Strange (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Cell Phones in prison (Score:1)
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Fuck off Nazi.
https://www.tandfonline.com/do... [tandfonline.com]
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Why don't we have something like a Stingray [wikipedia.org] or micro cell site that can be installed in prisons? Whitelist authorized staff cellphones and pass their calls through. Block or raise an alarm for all other devices operating inside the prison.
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please explain how
I don't know the details. But the cops use them at a couple of strip clubs in Seattle. And they can 'tune' them to select phones on the premises and not people driving by.
You just can't stop the Schulte! (Score:2)
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!
What US citizens have to do to honor the founders (Score:2)
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.
The difference between treason and whistleblowing (Score:2)
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.
Double Secret (Score:1)