Joshua Schulte, who sent CIA secrets to WikiLeaks, sentenced to 40 years

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/joshua-schulte-who-sent-cia-secrets-to-wikileaks-sentenced-to-40-years/ar-BB1hEyYs
“The cache of information published by WikiLeaks, dubbed Vault 7, went online in several batches across 2017. It laid out many of the CIA’s cyber capabilities and methods. The leak was the largest data breach in the history of the CIA and among the largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said Thursday in a statement announcing the sentencing.
Schulte, 35, was convicted in 2022 of crimes including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. It was the second trial after a hung jury and mistrial on the most serious charges in 2020. He faced another trial relating to possessing thousands of child pornography images and videos, discovered on his computer during an FBI investigation into the leak, and was convicted on those charges in September. His sentence, handed down by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, is for all convictions.”

Traitor and child porn. 40 years - good.

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I’m not sure what more he could have done to earn a life imprisonment sentence. Will he be eligible for parole? Did he think he wouldn’t get caught?

The child porn is just icing on the cake for the prosecution. Sure, forty years seems like a long time, but a sentence of life without parole sends a much stronger message to anyone thinking of pulling this kind of stunt and getting away with it.

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A big plus on this is that kiddie porn types tend to not fare well in prison. He’ll probably spend the rest of his life doing 23 hours a day in solitary, or be shanked.

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Another data dump with the intended purpose to harm the US, and our allies too in some cases. I could have some sympathy for these people if they were simply exposing serious wrongful acts instead of conspiring with WikiLeaks to reveal any secret information they had access too. This doesn’t aid in establishing useful checks and balances on our secretive intelligences services. Instead it helps them further limit oversight.