Biggest Wikileaker Joshua Adam Schulte Sentenced to 40 years

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-cia-officer-joshua-adam-schulte-sentenced-40-years-prison-espionage-and-child

by porsager • 2 years ago

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Daishiman• 2 years ago

Makes me think that the child porn was planted by the FBI...

sarcasmatwork• 2 years ago

It would not be the first time.

https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou/status/1682043052142231552

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/01/06/fbi-dismisses-child-porn...

jstarfish2• 2 years ago

That first link is hearsay.

That second link is not evidence that they planted it. It's evidence of them using illegal means to discover it. These are not the same thing. Faking probable cause to search your car is not evidence that they planted drugs.

Same as being exonerated for a wrongful conviction. It doesn't mean you didn't actually commit the crime and should let a wrongfully-convicted pedophile manage your daycare center. You really need to dig deeper than the headline to know what was wrongful about the conviction-- the actual offender later being caught is not the same as a procedural error by the prosecutor.

Given that possession isn't the only charge for Schulte, it wasn't planted. None of this was even necessary to make the case; they could easily have dropped these charges.

HaZeust• 2 years ago

From the Reddit AMA "I am Andrew Bustamante, a former covert CIA intelligence officer and founder of the Everyday Espionage training platform. Ask me anything."

"Does the cia use child prostitutes to control assets?" "I plead the 5th. The things we use to control assets are unsettling enough without going into details."

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a8c03j/i_am_andrew_bus...

apantel• 2 years ago

All of the blah blah blah about “damage to national security”. If any single person with access to these networks can do this kind of damage if they so happen to wake up on the wrong side of the bed one day, then ‘national security’ is not a secure system. It’s as secure as how those tens or hundreds of thousands of people with security clearance feel in the morning…

Which is true of basically any company too. They’re not secure because all it takes is a trusted person to go rogue.

gertop• 2 years ago

They’re not secure because all it takes is a trusted person to go rogue.

That's right, which is exactly why we have hefty consequences when someone does it. What would you suggest be an alternative? Have no secrets? Give medals to leakers?

scotty794• 2 years ago

Having no secrets seem like ideal end goal. Especially for the true top dog. True awesomeness should be witnessed.

Secrets are for the weak.

65102• 2 years ago

Compartmentalize?

That you hear about one instance of elaborate leaking means small leaks happen for profit on a much larger scale.

Have people request access with a case number and a why, do grant access but log what they are accessing and have triggers on it.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223800

devwastaken• 2 years ago

Actual violent offenders, murderers, molestors, rapists, etc get far less time and better circumstances.

Leakers continue to leak because the majority of the u.s. population believe their government is corrupt and deserves to be exposed. Said government would produce better outcomes by not continually proving their corruption. Federal corruption is concrete history, it's there on Wikipedia to read, but only the allowed parts.

It's a big club, you ain't in it, and theyre deciding your life for you.

mvdtnz• 2 years ago

Schulte is in fact a rapist and molester. Go ahead, read his Wikipedia page. Dude is not a good person.

bdjsiqoocwk• 2 years ago

Just had a look. Seems like he probably deserved that sentence for the CSAM alone.

Biggest Wikileaker Joshua Adam Schulte Sentenced to 40 years

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