Joshua Adam Schultz leaked the notorious "Vault 7" from CIA, which effectively neutered their ability to wage cyberwarfare against us and anyone else.

Of course they would plant some CP to punish the guy that leaked.

I have so little trust for our government that I find it hard to form an opinion one way or another if Schulte was a good guy that was framed with CP or if there is mostly truth to this article and Schulte was bad. Obviously if this outcome is legit, then I am happy. What I find incredulous is that apparently Schulte was so smart he was at times a sysadmin and software developer for the CIA - and when they removed his admin privileges, he figured out how to grant himself those privileges back.. Meanwhile, on his personal computer, the FBI 'discovered CP under multiple layers of encryption.' Like.. you would think Schulte knew how to encrypt files given previous sysadmin knowledge.. It's just awfully convenient for the FBI/CIA that Schulte had collected a bunch of CP.

NBC NEWS 2.1.2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/prosecutors-want-life-sentence-ex-cia-hacker-leaked-secrets-wikileaks-rcna136775

Ex-CIA hacker who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years

Former CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte was convicted of the so-called Vault 7 leak and also of possessing child sexual abuse images.

A man convicted of carrying out one of the most damaging data breaches in the CIA's history — the public disclosure of secret hacking tools — was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, prosecutors said.

Former CIA officer Joshua Adam Schulte, 35, was convicted of the so-called Vault 7 leak, and also of possessing child sexual abuse images, in two trials in 2022 and 2023.

Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, said Thursday that Schulte betrayed his country.

"He caused untold damage to our national security in his quest for revenge against the CIA for its response to Schulte’s security breaches while employed there," Williams said in a statement after the sentence was imposed.

Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.

Schulte, who left the CIA in 2016, “stands convicted of some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the Espionage Act in American history,” prosecutors said in their sentencing memo to the judge, adding that he stole “an arsenal of extremely sensitive intelligence-gathering cyber-tools” from the CIA and handed it to WikiLeaks, “which in turn publicized it to America’s adversaries” in 2017.

The defense asked for nine years, saying that Schulte has been “subjected to continuous torture” during his six-year confinement since his arrest, and calling him “a bright, kind young man” whose crimes “represent aberrant behavior in an otherwise law-abiding life.”

Schulte’s attorney, César de Castro, said they hoped for a lighter sentence but were relieved the 40-year sentence was not longer.

“We are very disappointed that Mr. Schulte received 40 years imprisonment, however, relieved that he did not receive life imprisonment as strongly urged by the government,” he said.

In a letter to the court, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen called the leak “one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the United States” and said it caused “exceptionally grave harm to U.S. national security.”

He said the leak “placed directly at risk CIA personnel, programs, and assets.”

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.

After being caught, prosecutors say, Schulte declared what he called “my information war,” and “attempted to disclose even more classified information from jail in flagrant defiance of numerous warnings and a court order.”

Before and after his arrest, prosecutors say, “Schulte fed an abhorrent personal fixation through his collection and viewing of an enormous trove of child sexual abuse materials.”

Approximately 3,400 images and videos were found of what the U.S. attorney's office described as "disturbing and horrific" sex abuse images of children. They were among other images hidden under layers of encryption on a personal computer, the U.S. attorney's office said.

After Schulte's prison term, he will be on supervised release for life, the prosecutor's office said.

Seems like that is where Zuckerberg should be too, for aiding and abetting pornography, abduction and torture.

So it appears this guy was trying to blow the whistle on the CIA, hmm.

I'm thinking he had taken those photos/videos as evidence of the C_A/Fed Govt child sex trafficking ops, only to have the Clowns spring a trap for him when they were hunting for the Vault 7 leaker. This makes more sense to me than some BH turned WH who would stupidly keep his "treasure trove" of CP un-encrypted. The various news articles on this guy's conviction mainly focus on his "data breaches" rather than "his" "trove" of CP.

Either the CP was uploaded to his computer after the fact (by Clowns), or he found that shit sitting in the Clown mainframes while gathering the Vault 7 the evidence and decided to download it as evidence of Fed Govt evil deeds.

Either scenario works out here. The problem is, for as smart as he may be, he was still a dumbass for downloading it. So now I'm wondering if this case is why Q said to leave that shit alone if you come across it.

After all, Chuckie Schumer said it best when talking about Trump going after th I tell Community: "They have 7 ways to Sunday to get back at you..."