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.
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Not the bottom line at all, but a significant disappointment. I grew up among, and served with, many who take security extremely seriously.
So, I was stationed in Hawaii and assigned to the 372nd ASA. The 2nd Ops platoon were doing a routine test of their equipment and picked up something strange. They traced it to the Honolulu Harbor. The went to the supply depot at Kapalama and “targeted” the Russian oceanography ship that was in the harbor. Turns out it was really a spy ship. Crazy shit. Discovered by accident. So MI groups do protect the USA. You just don’t see it in the news
Would you want to strip search Killary?
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