Former CIA official allegedly leaked CIA's important confidential information `` Vault 7 '' to WikiLeaks
A former CIA official, alleged to have been the source of information for a confidential 'Vault 7' published by WikiLeaks in 2017, revealing the reality of the CIA's covert operations, has been found guilty. However, they were found guilty of court insults and false statements made to FBI agents, and were not found guilty of 'theft or transmission of confidential documents.'
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'Vault 7' is confidential information that summarizes the hacking plans of various devices by the CIA and vulnerability information that the CIA has kept secret and not disclosed to the public. It was distributed to government officials and hackers involved in the operation, one of whom came to light by providing information to WikiLeaks.
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Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer, was accused of providing this information. Defendants at the CIA and the NSA developed hacking tools and malware to break into hostile computers. In March 2017, when the information on 'Vault 7' was released, he left the CIA.
The investigator seemed to be watching Schulte early on, and was arrested in August 2017 five months after the release of Vault 7 information. Initially, he was charged with crimes such as 'possessing child pornography,' but 10 months later, the Ministry of Justice filed additional complaints regarding 'theft of confidential information.'
On March 9, 2020, a federal judge convicted Schultte of two charges of insulting the court and making false statements against FBI agents. However, after four weeks of trial, there was no clear evidence that Schultte provided information after eight weeks of trials, including 'theft of confidential information from the CIA', which should have been a major issue. He was not guilty.
The news site's RFI describes the ruling as 'a shameful defeat of the Justice Department.'
In addition, a hearing will be conducted in late March on what to do with the next stage of the lawsuit, and a separate trial on possession of child pornography will be held. If you were found guilty in this case, you would be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
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