Ex-cia Engineer Charged With Largest Leak Of Cia Intelligence Ever To Wikileaks

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    A grand jury has indicted a former CIA computer engineer on 13 counts of stealing and leaking classified information to WikiLeaks more than ten months after his initial arrest.

    The charges include illegally gathering classified information, damaging CIA computers and lying to investigators, among other offenses, Politico reported. The WikiLeaks breach was the largest CIA breach in history.

    Joshua Schulte was originally facing child pornography charges in federal court in New York last year after investigators found more than 10,000 files on a server he created in 2009 while in college.

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    Does it make you feel secure knowing that this guy had the kind of access that he had?
     
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    Nope. What was his purpose in doing it?
     
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    I don't know, but I would think that if his main concern was stealing CIA documents and resources, he'd lay off the pedophile stuff, and vice versa.
     
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