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Trial Journal of Schulte Say A Blog Can
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July 1 – After Josh Schulte
established, at length, that
the cooperator against him
Carlos Betances had sold drugs
in the Bronx and was
testifying not only to shorten
his sentence but also to try
to get an S visa to stay in
the United States, things
moved to FBI Agent Evan
Schlessinger.
He had led
a team of 50, yes Five-Oh,
agents into the MCC jail in
2018 to search for Schulte's
cell phone that Chirping
Carlos had smuggled in then
told the prosecutors and FBI,
through his lawyer,
about.
That the phone
was also used by Omar Amanat,
the first cousin of Huma
Abadeen, didn't matter to him
he said. They knew what they
were looking for. And what
they were not looking
for.
But they
also found Josh Schulte's
journals and now they were
being read out in court. "I
will bring down embassies and
end occupations," Schulte had
written.
Why hadn't this
made him like a Snowden or
Daniel Hale, a principled
whistleblower (at least to
some) instead of a troll?
Well, there was also the
reference to fifty billion
dollars, and about anger on
telephone calls with his
parents when his jail house
essays like Malware of the
Mind were mispublished on
Facebook, followed by being
apologetic.
Was it
fair or seemly to use a
person's diaries against them?
They had gotten a warrant. In
jail, unless you get a
contraband cell phone, you
can't speak without being
recorded; Schulte couldn't
take notes into a hidden
virtual machine on a computer.
So he kept handwritten
journals and now here they
were.
He'd
written, "Give me a phone and
a blog and I'll change the
world." He hadn't.
But had
Collateral Murder, Manning
magnum opus, stopped the war
on Afghanistan? Or hadn't that
some more than a decade later,
a shameful pullout with
translators rounded up and
slaughtered, UN local staff
left to die, Big Tony laughing
all the way to Lisbon? More on
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