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Whether or not you think he should be jailed for leaking CIA secrets, the dude had child porn. He deserved a serious sentence because he expressed zero remorse for that. Along those lines he couldn’t even fucking pretend to have leaked the state secrets for any other reason than the CIA was a shitty place to work. You gotta play the fucking game if you’re gonna fuck with the government. You can’t just be a crusty old coder.
Holy shit, they really buried the lede with that headline. For sure, throw away the key.
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t really trust the word of the CIA on those things. Or anything, really.
Why does the CIA have a trove of child porn?
Leverage.
…
Drugs -> Money
Sex -> Control the Powerful
Plumbers protect the CIA.
It’s always big pipe isn’t it
Wet works. Always in demand.
To prove the charges. There have been enough cases of “she looks too young to be 18” where they were, in fact, 18. This database (which I thought was actually run by the FBI, but whatever) let’s them show that the images were of Jane Roe, born May 5 1996, and the images/material were produced between 2008-2010.
IOW, to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they were underage.
What happened to the guy who staged a coup to overthrow the government? Remember where all those psychos with guns wailed on cops with flagpoles and shit on the walls and stuff, and that lady planted bombs by the RNC office? Remember that? What happened to that guy?
Oh nothing?
Oh.
Huh.
I wouldn’t say nothing, as he might become the next US president
(if the world is unlucky)
He chilled with Epstein and raped some kids just like many Democrats. Part of the elite pedo ring.
What was your point again?
We get it, that’s why you like him.
I don’t like people in Pedo rape circles like the Republicans or Democrats. Do you?
Yes yes both sides, that’s why you jumped in to eagerly start screeching whataboutisms.
You were all in your fun circle pretending it was only Donald Trump doing Pedo activities.
Then you had to face the reality that both Democrats and Republicans are plenty on Epstein’s list that he made before he accidentally slipped on a banana peel in prison
I wonder how many of the gaping security holes in softwares and systems he reported have since been patched that otherwise would have left to doors wide open for hackers?
As long as governments hoard security vulnerabilities, they are endangering security, safety, life and property of millions of people.
NSA accidentally leaking eternal blue lol
They take the man’s entire life away because he revealed us terrible things our non-elected leaders are doing to us. Who was hurt by his actions?
They take the man’s entire life away because he revealed us terrible things our non-elected leaders are doing to us.
And for possessing child porn…
Furman said Schulte continued his crimes from behind bars by trying to leak more classified materials and by creating a hidden file on his computer that contained 2,400 images of child sexual abuse that he continued to view from jail.
Holy crap, dude was even watching child porn in prison. Clearly the CIA is hiring the cream of the crop.
It wouldn’t be far fetched that they put that themselves.
Except the part where he was quoted saying that it was a victimless crime. Ick
Yeah, it’s fairly insane. You’d think he would have denied it, got everyone in an uproar, maybe made a bid for appeal.
NOPE
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Need to read the article man, He unapologetically had cp
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i prefer bridges on my bridges. They often build up walkways for inspectors over tricky areas the crane’s can’t reach
Giving away methods for hacking/spying ensures your country is at a disadvantage.
Tune extent yes, but it also makes us all more secure. Even if you think our own government is doing a good job all the other governments have these holes too.
Everyone acting like the CIA couldn’t have had leverage over that guy and made him admit to the cp charge . Unless i have some kind of proof i ain’t believing shit . And also if that is true indeed i think 40 years is fair enough for that charge alone . Or am i missing something ?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The bulk of the sentence imposed on Joshua Schulte, 35, in Manhattan federal court came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices.
In requesting a life sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney David William Denton Jr. said Schulte was responsible for “the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history.”
The judge said Schulte was “not driven by any sense of altruism,” but instead was “motivated by anger, spite and perceived grievance” against others at the agency who he believed had ignored his complaints about the work environment.
A mistrial was declared at Schulte’s original 2020 trial after jurors deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information.
In a statement afterward, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Schulte “betrayed his country by committing some of the most brazen, heinous crimes of espionage in American history.”
The original article contains 694 words, the summary contains 175 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
So, was he really just angry? Or is that a convenient lie?
We haven’t heard his side. So definitely a lie
Should’ve done what Snowden did. If you know what you’re going to do, will lead to these consequences? Get the hell out of the country.
Because this is EXACTLY the kind of thing the American Government would’ve done to Snowden if he stayed. Snowden was right that he knew they wouldn’t give him a fair trial.
Eh, even if he did get a fair trial, what he did was clearly illegal and was definitely going to land him in prison. It was the right thing to do, but unless you have full faith that you’re going to get a presidential pardon, you’re right that you should be prepared to leave the country and never come back.
Whistleblower laws need strengthening. Snowden’s leaks, for example, were clearly in the public interest and needed to be leaked. It’s an unjust country that can’t see that and spare him.
