| In Vault 7 CIA Leaks Trial
Schulte Complains Federal Defenders Barred
From Courtroom
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 11 – A week before the
trial of accused CIA leaker
Joshua Schulte, set to begin
February 3, a public hearing
was held on January 27 about
the US Attorney's requests to
seal the courtroom for some
witness and limited media
attendance to a single pool
reporter banned from reporting
any physical characteristics
of the CIA witnesses.
On
this issue, Inner City Press
before the public hearing
filed three one-page letters
in opposition, the last one here.
At
the end U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Paul A. Crotty
asked
Assistant US
Attorney
Matthew
Laroche if his
Office
objected to
live video
feed to the
SDNY Press
Room, not
showing the
witnesses'
faces. AUSA
Laroche said
no objection -
which should
mean feeds for
this all other
proceedings,
when
requested. On
February 4, Inner City Press
live-tweeted the opening
arguments, here.
On February
11, Schulte's lawyer
Sabrina Shroff complained on
the record to Judge
Crotty that her requests to
the CISO to have lawyers from
the Federal Defendents
admitted into the courtroom
had been denied; she said this
was another way in which
Schulte is being denied his
right to a public trial. Judge
Crotty dismissed this
complaint, saying he had
already ruled on it. Inner
City Press, so far asked to
move off the 14th and even the
5th floor, will have more on
this.
On
February 10, after
testimony that the CIA Agents
called in for damage control
were not allowed to visit
Wikileaks' site on the
Internet, Schulte's lawyers
asked to preclude an expert
witness... Inner City
Press will stay on the case -
watch this site.
Back
on January 24, for which a
feed was denied, an issue that
arose was Schulte's letters
complaining that his assigned
counsel James M. Branden is
not providing assistance of
counsel. Now in the docket is
a letter from Branden, dated
January 24, stating that
because of a hearing in White
Plains he could not attend the
final pre-trial conference for
Schulte. Something is very
wrong with this. And this:
A basic
PACER search by Inner City
Press finds that Schulte in
April 2019 filed a civil
lawsuit against the US
Attorney General. There is a
docket number: 19-cv-3346.
Photo here.
But even
on the SDNY Press Room PACER
terminal when Inner City Press
clicked on the Complaint, it
replied, "You do not have
permission to view this
document." So who does? And is
this a public court system? We
will have more on this.
Assistant US Attorney Matthew
Laroche argued that while
prospective jurors will be
shown witnesses real names, it
will only by in hard copy and
thereafter some 17 of them
will be referred to by
pseudonyms.
Shroff,
still with the Federal
Defenders for purposes of this
case, insisted on calling
these "fake names," and
complained about the
difficulties imposed in
conducting basic research on
potential witnesses.
See Inner City
Press filing into the docket
on Big Cases Bot, here.
Watch this site. The case is US
v. Schulte, 17-cr-548
(Crotty).
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