Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s Evidence at the trial showed schulte worked for an elite cia hacking unit, became disgruntled at work and may have leaked the material in a spiteful attempt to lash back at his colleagues. 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
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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, 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. 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 adam schulte (born september 25, 1988) is a former central intelligence agency (cia) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to wikileaks. 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.
