Joshua Schulte, who prosecutors said was responsible for agency’s largest data breach, also guilty of possessing child abuse images

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.

The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for “crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography”, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The judge did not impose a life sentence as sought by prosecutors.

Joshua Schulte was convicted in July 2022 on four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents, after giving classified materials to the whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak. Last August, a judge mostly upheld the conviction.

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  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I’ll first open by noting that you had no problem referring back to Stalin when you thought it benefitted your argument, or referring to conflicts by the US outside the original date range. When it turns out it really didn’t and you realize that accepting those dates would be utterly impossible to defend in the broader scope of corruption and murder, you quickly changed your tune – and as I predicted – opted for a narrow date range under some excuse (which I’ll get into further below).