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A Juror Explains Why a C.I.A. Hacker Was Convicted


On July 13th, a jury of twelve New Yorkers returned a verdict in the trial of Joshua Schulte, the C.I.A. hacker accused of engineering the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history. They found him guilty on all nine counts. Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who oversaw the case, described Schulte’s crime as “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage” ever committed in America. This was Schulte’s second trial on these charges; in March, 2020, a jury had come to a deadlock on the most significant allegations against him, and a judge declared a mistrial. (I wrote about Schulte, and the revelations of that earlier case, in the magazine in June.) But members of the new jury, which was empanelled earlier this summer, were not aware that he had been tried before. Juror No. 4, Juan Flores, told me over coffee last week, “We knew nothing.” The jurors scrupulously obeyed instructions not to consult any media accounts of the case, Flores explained. “I’ve been in the city forty-seven years, and I’ve been called to jury duty twice,” he said. He feels good about the verdict: “The system worked.”

Flores has intense eyes and a gentle smile. He is a retired assistant principal who spent his career working in the public-school system in the Bronx. Testimony about Schulte’s workplace antics at the C.I.A. gave Flores occasional flashbacks to his years as an educator. “I used to conduct conflict resolution with third graders,” he recalled. “ ‘We’re going to move your desks.’ ‘O.K., you couldn’t let it go, so we’re going to move you to a different classroom.’ Schulte couldn’t drop it. He couldn’t leave it alone.” Flores said that Schulte seemed not to have ever learned “all those things you learn when you’re a kid.”

The government’s argument was that Schulte (whose penchant for disproportionate retaliation had earned him the office nickname the Nuclear Option) stole a huge trove of sensitive hacking tools and disclosed them to WikiLeaks, not because he was critical of U.S. policy but as an act of revenge against his colleagues and his superiors, who had criticized him…

Source…

Former C.I.A. Officer Sentenced to 20 Years After Spying for China – The New York Times

  1. Former C.I.A. Officer Sentenced to 20 Years After Spying for China  The New York Times
  2. China luring US intel veterans to leak government secrets with cash  Washington Examiner
  3. Former CIA officer jailed for 20 years for spying for China  Reuters
  4. Ex-CIA officer Kevin Mallory sentenced to 20 years for spying for China  The Guardian
  5. Ex-CIA agent gets 20-year sentence for spying for China  INQUIRER.net
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