Former CIA employee sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information and possessing child sex abuse images

Published: 02 February 2024 at 00:15

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks in the Vault 7 leak and for possessing child sex abuse images and videos. The leak, described as the largest in CIA history, exposed secret hacking tools and revealed the agency\'s activities of monitoring foreign governments and alleged extremists. Schulte was also found guilty of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, and making false statements to the FBI. Prosecutors had pushed for a life sentence, stating that Schulte\'s actions caused exceptional harm to national security.

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