“This case has been dragging since August 2017. The government should be required to indict so Mr. Schulte has the opportunity to defend himself. Otherwise he is just languishing.”
Sabrina P. Shroff of the federal public defender’s office
“From a statistical point of view, there is no reason to assume that the files were leaked by a ‘millennial’. To the contrary, one would expect the person to be a very disappointed mid-career officer. In my opinion, the US Intel Community has already identified the person(s) responsible for the leak of the VAULT-7 files. And Michael Hayden knows that. Otherwise, his comments would make no sense whatsoever.”
Intel Today — March 17 2017
FBI investigators believe that Joshua A. Schulte — 29-year-old former C.I.A. software engineer — stole the CIA ‘Vault 7’ files and passed them to WikiLeaks. However, they have no evidence to prove it at this point.
After the release of Vault 7, I suggested that the files were genuine. (The CIA would of course neither deny nor confirm.) I also stated that the documents were leaked — and not hacked as Trump said at the time. I thought that the insider was a CIA employee, and not a contractor. Finally, I believed that this person was rather young, despite the odds. (On average, IC whistleblowers tend to be mid-career officers.) I was right by all accounts.
UPDATE (June 19 2018) — According to the FBI, Joshua Adam Schulte allegedly stole classified information relating to National Security from the CIA and transmitted this information to Wikileaks. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
