Federal prosecutors say the defendant, Joshua Schulte, stole the documents when he worked in a CIA unit that designed the hacking tools.
In court filings, prosecutors have accused Mr. Schulte of a "Wanton disregard for the rules" governing classified information and said the leaks' "Impact on the CIA's intelligence-gathering activities and the national security of the United States was catastrophic."
Mr. Schulte's trial presents a host of thorny legal questions, reflecting the case's roots in the U.S. national-security apparatus.
Mr. Schulte's lawyers have been blocked from doing online research of CIA employees expected to testify as trial witnesses, court filings show.
Former U.S. intelligence officials have described Mr. Schulte's alleged leak as particularly damaging to national security because it exposed specific, targeted hacking tools used against high-level targets abroad. WikiLeaks came under intense criticism, even by some privacy advocates, for its decision to publish the full tranche of documents.
Within days, court filings show, the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that the breach had likely occurred around March 2016, and that the materials had been maintained by the CIA unit where Mr. Schulte had worked from 2010 to the end of 2016, when he moved to New York to take another job.
While in jail, prosecutors allege, Mr. Schulte violated court orders, using an encrypted app on a contraband phone to disseminate confidential information and to allege, on social media, that the FBI was trying to frame him.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-engineer-goes-on-trial-for-massive-leak-11580741119?mod=hp_listb_pos2
In court filings, prosecutors have accused Mr. Schulte of a "Wanton disregard for the rules" governing classified information and said the leaks' "Impact on the CIA's intelligence-gathering activities and the national security of the United States was catastrophic."
Mr. Schulte's trial presents a host of thorny legal questions, reflecting the case's roots in the U.S. national-security apparatus.
Mr. Schulte's lawyers have been blocked from doing online research of CIA employees expected to testify as trial witnesses, court filings show.
Former U.S. intelligence officials have described Mr. Schulte's alleged leak as particularly damaging to national security because it exposed specific, targeted hacking tools used against high-level targets abroad. WikiLeaks came under intense criticism, even by some privacy advocates, for its decision to publish the full tranche of documents.
Within days, court filings show, the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that the breach had likely occurred around March 2016, and that the materials had been maintained by the CIA unit where Mr. Schulte had worked from 2010 to the end of 2016, when he moved to New York to take another job.
While in jail, prosecutors allege, Mr. Schulte violated court orders, using an encrypted app on a contraband phone to disseminate confidential information and to allege, on social media, that the FBI was trying to frame him.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-engineer-goes-on-trial-for-massive-leak-11580741119?mod=hp_listb_pos2
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