Thread by @blmohr

Former CIA engineer is going on trial on charges he gave leaked documents to WikiLeaks

Schulte’s al­leged leak was par­tic­u­larly dam­ag­ing to
na­t. se­c. be­cause it “ex­posed spe­cific, tar­geted hack­ing tools used against hi-level tar­gets abroad.” wsj.com/articles/ex-ci…

“Schulte wasn’t charged
im­medi­ately, and in
con­ver­sations with au­thor­i­ties he de­nied leak­ing clas­si­fied
in­fo. But by early April he faced a dif­fer­ent le­gal peril: while search­ing Schulte’s de­vices, agents found ev­i­dence of child pornog­ra­phy...”

“While in jail, pros­e­cu­tors al­lege, Schulte vi­o­lated court or­ders, us­ing an en­crypted app on a con­tra­band phone to
dis­sem­i­nate con­fi­den­tial in­fo and to al­lege, on so­cial me­dia, that the FBI was try­ing to frame him.”