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Accused WikiLeaks source granted access to classified case material with caveats
The Washington Times ^ | December 13, 2018 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 12/13/2018 1:17:56 PM PST by jazusamo

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee charged in connection with leaking classified hacking tools to WikiLeaks, will be shackled and subjected to strip searches if he wishes to view classified material related to the government’s case against him, a court ordered Thursday.

The conditions appear in a protective order requested by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, where the former CIA computer engineer is being held awaiting trial for espionage.

The government has prepared a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, in which Mr. Schulte and his attorney can visit to review classified information concerning his case, prosecutors wrote in a filing proposing the protective order.

“The Defendant will be in full restraints during the time he is in the SCIF and secured to a bolt in the floor. The defendant will be stripped searched after departing the SCIF at the conclusion of each session. The Defense attorney will sign a waiver of liability due to the fact he will be alone and in close proximity to the defendant,” the order said.

U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty authorized the order shortly after it was proposed Wednesday evening in Manhattan federal court.

Neither Mr. Schulte’s legal team nor representatives at the Department of Justice immediately returned messages seeking comment on the conditions.

Mr. Schulte was charged in June 2018 with violating the U.S. Espionage Act, among other statutes, in connection with allegedly stealing and disseminating national defense information.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201806; 201812; assange; cia; doj; espionage; joshuaschulte; paulcrotty; schulte; scif; vault7; wikileaks
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1 posted on 12/13/2018 1:17:56 PM PST by jazusamo
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wow if only they had given Sandy the Burglar this treatment.... or any of the numerous ‘Rat miscreants who ought to have been prosecuted before now.


2 posted on 12/13/2018 1:20:03 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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Can we pls hurry and do this for Shrillary and her staff, and everyone else involved in ‘Rat national security scandals???

How about trials for all the illegal ‘unmasking’ and classified leaks???


3 posted on 12/13/2018 1:22:59 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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4 posted on 12/13/2018 1:25:53 PM PST by small farm girl (....)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

Sandy Burglar’s boss and his bosses wife should have gotten that treatment a few times too.


5 posted on 12/13/2018 1:31:01 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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“The Defendant will be in full restraints during the time he is in the SCIF and secured to a bolt in the floor. The defendant will be stripped searched after departing the SCIF at the conclusion of each session. The Defense attorney will sign a waiver of liability due to the fact he will be alone and in close proximity to the defendant,” the order said.

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If the Founders could see into the future and read something like this, they would have to conclude their noble experiment failed. We now have secret courts with secret evidence and suspects bolted to the floor. Throw in charging people for actions that are not crimes and determination of guilt or innocence based on party affiliation. The U.S. justice system is a perversion.


6 posted on 12/13/2018 1:38:16 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: jazusamo

Those CIA hacking tools were illegal and are now being used by malevolent groups around the world.


7 posted on 12/13/2018 2:08:13 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Flick Lives

The Deep State is in power. Not Trump & not us. Virtually all rights are being violated by those of whom the Deep State disapproves.


8 posted on 12/13/2018 2:09:28 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: jazusamo

Screw them. He’s a national hero for letting the cat out of the bag. He’s the man who let us know about the umbrage project. That project collected tools and tactics from around the world oh, so that they could lay the blame for hacking at the feet of anybody they chose.

For example, you might need to try to pretend that Russia interfered in our election


9 posted on 12/13/2018 2:54:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Flick Lives

Exactly. That is pure stasi. And for what it’s worth, there is no legitimate purpose for launching digital attacks and being able to lay them at the feet of another country. Those skunks at the NSA CIA FBI use this kind of stuff. And then they come out wide-eyed with a straight face and tell us all about how the alleged hacking came from Russia.

The bottom line is that our intelligence services do not, and never have protected America. They are on American, and should be disbanded. Any legitimate tactical intelligence functions should be turned over to the military as it was before World War II.


10 posted on 12/13/2018 2:58:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Which is why I hate the pass-the-popcorn posts: American citizens are being destroyed.


11 posted on 12/13/2018 3:51:47 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; arthurus; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; ...
The bottom line is that our intelligence services do not, and never have protected America.

What say you MI types?

12 posted on 12/13/2018 5:25:36 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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I can name three operations off the top of head where Americans and American interests were protected, and i didn't have to think. Then there are the sustained programs.........

There is a valid need for intelligence reform (there always is), but to posit intelligence services don't protect Americans comes from someone who has no professional experience in the area.

13 posted on 12/13/2018 6:10:40 PM PST by Salvavida
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*** Those skunks at the NSA CIA FBI use this kind of stuff. And then they come out wide-eyed with a straight face and tell us all about how the alleged hacking came from Russia. ***

Yeah, what happened to the good old days when we were told North Korea was doing all the hacking?


14 posted on 12/13/2018 6:14:06 PM PST by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: ASA Vet

I take it as a slanderous attack on all of us who served honorably in military intelligence billets. I have nothing but disdain for the poster’s comment.


15 posted on 12/13/2018 6:29:30 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ASA Vet
I say they definitely used to - but the revealed corruption and rot at the agencys’ tops make it impossible to trust what they are now.

Ditto for our formerly revered allies like Great Britain. Their intel has been revealed as political agenda... They now seem like Total tools. And not friends of the US. Ditto with...others.

The appointment of a psycho like Brennan to head CIA should have never ever ever occurred. But it did. That is one dangerous SOB

Fish rot from the head down.
Hopefully Trump has patriots and loyal people advising him but the drivel that spews from the State Department and so-called “UN Ambassador” make me doubtful.

16 posted on 12/13/2018 6:36:38 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: ASA Vet

Intelligence is an art, not a science. There is no proof formula for intel, i.e., SIGINT+HUMINT+ELINT+GEOINT+Tac Intel does not necessarily equal Ground Truth. Too many variables in each of those disciplines and too much dependence on secondary and tertiary indicators for reliable I&W.

A basic truism of intelligence is that our failures always receive top billing, whereas our successes are rarely known and that will never change.


17 posted on 12/13/2018 6:58:31 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: ASA Vet
The bottom line is that our intelligence services do not, and never have protected America.

The person has no idea what the real intelligence agents have been doing because we do not kiss and tell. When someone starts writing the books and getting air time, it means they really were not capable and feel the need to justify themselves. The real agents do their jobs, target the bad guys, and shut the heck up.
18 posted on 12/13/2018 8:31:25 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: ASA Vet

He has no idea what he is talking about ... perhaps he is too young to know or never was in any real position to know anything, except what others told him or he read like this pice here; a piece(from the comments) display a total lack of any knowledge about the intel community, rather a hate fest stirred up by a bad actor or by malevolent media types.


19 posted on 12/14/2018 1:45:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ASA Vet

Never is a word that may be a bit too strong....the Intel services are certainly overcrowded with a lot of folks who ain’t patriots and likely never will be but there must be a few cases where they proved useful.


20 posted on 12/14/2018 2:18:52 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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