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Ex-employee who carried out the largest leak in the history of the CIA, is sentenced to 40 years in prison

2024-02-02 21:30:12Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ex-employee who carried out the largest leak in the history of the CIA, is
Joshua Schulte in a trial sketch published by American media

A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out the largest data leak in the agency's history, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced Thursday.

Joshua Schulte, who was accused of handing over classified data sets to WikiLeaks in 2016, was convicted in 2022 of illegally collecting and transmitting national defense information and obstructing a criminal investigation and grand jury proceeding. , among other charges. According to the US Attorney's Office, he was also found guilty in 2023 of receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography.

Schulte had worked as a computer engineer at the CIA's Center for Cyber ​​Intelligence and created cyber tools that could capture undetected data from computers.

"Joshua Schulte betrayed his country by committing some of the most brazen, despicable crimes of espionage in American history," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "He caused incalculable damage to our national security in his pursuit of retaliation against the CIA for its response to Schulte's security breaches while employed there."

"When the FBI caught up with him, Schulte tried to cause even more damage to this nation by waging what he described as an 'information war' of releasing top-secret information from behind bars," Williams added. "And all the while, Schulte collected thousands and thousands of videos and images of children being subjected to sick abuse for his own personal gratification."

"Today, Joshua Schulte was rightfully punished not only for his betrayal of our country, but for his substantial possession of horrific child pornography," FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Smith said in a statement. The severity of his actions is evident and the sentence imposed reflects the scale of the disturbing and harmful threat posed by his criminal behaviour.


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