United States The largest-ever CIA leak of all time continues – The New Yorker: Defendant is a “sensitive-skinned” former employee who teased himself in the yard of the CIA

Of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) resumes trial in federal court in New York on Monday, June 13 The New Yorker in a case dealing extensively with the case.

The accused is Joshua Schulte, A 33-year-old former CIA programmer who drew attention in the agency with both his programming skills and his behavior. Schulte is accused of sending more than 8,000 classified websites to Wikileaks, which released the files on its website in March 2017.

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When The CIA hired Schulten directly from the University of Texas, he was only in his twenties computers and a favorite author of the U.S. right Ayn Randia glowing engineering student.

Within a few years, the skilled coder rose many steps in the hierarchy of the CIA’s secretive division of the CIA’s Operational Support. The department is responsible for operations aimed at gaining access to the equipment, for example by infiltrating the device holder’s close circle. In 2015, Schulte was promoted to administrator of OSB’s software developer network, which meant he was able to determine who had access to the project’s source code.

Schulten former colleagues say he was sensitive-skinned, stubborn and precise about how things were handled at OSB. When Schulte felt he had been mistreated, he often reacted dramatically. One night, a rubber loop that Schulte pointed at a close colleague eventually led to a fist fight.

With repeated disruptions, Schulte got into an argument with another colleague. Schulte felt that he had received a death sentence from him and applied for a restraining order. This raised the CIA’s Internal Security Research Division, and Schulte was transferred to another division.

At the same time, Schulte lost access to his old projects.

Schulte did not swallow the transfer, but continued to fabricate grievance messages all the way to the CIA’s top management. In late June 2016, he wrote in an email to the CIA Executive Director Meroë Parkillethat his only option is to resign. A few months later, Schulte no longer worked for the CIA.

Before however, upon his departure, Schulte managed to regain access rights for a moment. This has been disputed by Schulte.

According to the plaintiff U.S. government, Schulte had programmed a backdoor with a modest KingJosh3000 password into OSB’s network in recent months.

According to the lawsuit, Schulte backed up OSB files on a daily basis for its own use. The backup made on March 3, 2016 is identical to the file mass published by Wikileaks.

Backup and Schulte’s search history for the second half of 2016, investigated by the Federal Police (FBI), is the strongest evidence of guilt. At the time, Schulte did a total of 39 Google searches related to Wikileaks.

The FBI also found a child pornography archive of more than ten thousand files from Schulte. According to Schulte, he just kept files of friends and acquaintances on his own server. The prosecutor has not yet grasped this, nor has the case in which Schulten allegedly exploited a woman in an unknown state with her roommate.

Schulte was arrested in August 2017. He has since been first placed under house arrest and then imprisoned in a federal administration remand prison.

Schulte was sued by a federal court in February 2020. He was charged with a total of ten crimes, including lying to the FBI and disclosing classified information to an outside party. The state believes Schulten’s motive was revenge on the CIA.

The state called more than a dozen CIA employees as witnesses. In the trial, CIA witnesses appeared under their first names or pseudonyms and moved into closed court with their own special elevator.

Schulte’s defense relied in court on the CIA’s inability to protect its own data, arguing that the problem of the system was poured down the neck of one person. The defense accused the agency of “witch hunts” and also recalled that the CIA only noticed the hacking when Wikileaks released the files.

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The prosecutor The evidence presented by Schulte reveals that Schulte downloaded the Tails software that Wikileaks recommends for sending files to its computer. Less than a week later, he researched a website that told him how to be sure that a thousand gigabytes of data had been successfully transferred.

However, no evidence was found of an exchange of messages between Wikileaks and Schulte.

The court condemned Schulte for contempt of court and for lying to the FBI, but the technical details proved insurmountable to the jury. The judge ruled that the eight other charges were dropped.

Of these an attempt is being made to open the culmination of eight charges in a trial beginning on Monday. According to New Yorker, the trial is likely to be as secretive as the first.