Former CIA Coder Charged For Wikileaks Espionage … Finally

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/19/former-cia-coder-charged-wikileaks-espionage-finally/

"Joshua Schulte, 29, was charged in a new grand jury indictment with providing WikiLeaks with a massive trove of U.S. government hacking tools that the online publisher posted in March 2017, the Justice Department announced on Monday.

Schulte was previously facing child pornography charges in federal court in New York, but the indictment broadens the case to accuse him of illegally gathering classified information, damaging CIA computers, lying to investigators and numerous other offenses.

In January, attorneys involved in the child porn case revealed in court that Schulte was the target of a major investigation into WikiLeaks’ release of a CIA collection known as “Vault 7.”

Politico also has a copy of the new indictment, which replaces the previous indictment for Schulte over his alleged involvement in child pornography. That case raised some eyebrows as to prosecutor intent and Schulte’s actual involvement in the traffic over his servers. At the time, the suggestion was that the DoJ ginned up the child-porn charges as a way to keep Schulte detained while they built a case for espionage against him. If so, the DoJ isn’t backing down, as those charges remain in the new indictment."