| In Vault 7 Trial CIA Leaking
Schulte Medical Information to Amol Raised
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 14 – 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 13, before Judge
Crotty adjourned the trial
until February 18 when he said
it will go past 3 pm to 3:30
or 4, Schulte's lawyer Sabrina
Shroff questioned then-CIA
supervisor Bonnie Bennett Stith
about Schulte's personal
medical information having
somehow been leaked to his
nemesis Amol:
"Mr. Schulte
filed a complaint about the
way he was being treated by
Amol, correct? A. Yes. Q. And
when he felt his complaint
wasn't taken seriously, he
escalated it, right? A. Yes...
Q. He went
and got a protective order in
a courtroom, correct? State
courtroom, correct? A. Yes. Q.
By the way, did you know at
some point that people had
actually gone to court? A. I
was briefed on the fact that
they had gone to court. Q. Did
somebody get a transcript and
see what was said in that
proceeding? A. It was handed
to our security. Q. OK.
Let's go with that. Did
security get you a
transcript?
A. No. Q. You
have two CIA employees going
to a state court, correct? A.
Uh-huh. Q. This is the last
thing the CIA wants, am I
right? A. I don't know that
I'd call it the last thing,
but it's not something that
was done. Q. I mean, isn't it
fair to say no company wants
that headache?
Right? Private, public,
government, nobody wants that,
right? A. I can't speak to
that. Q. OK. Well, you
didn't want that, did you? A.
It wouldn't be my first
choice, no. Q. OK. And
security was in charge of
this, correct? A. It was
handed over to security. Q.
Right. Security never
got you a copy of the
transcript, correct? A. No. Q.
You have no idea what was even
said by Amol in open court,
correct? A. No.
Q. You have no
idea if Amol actually told the
judge that this man has been
sent to counseling, correct?
A. No.
Q. You do not
know how Amol got that
information, sitting here to
this day, correct?
A. No. Q.
And yet you think you knew the
culture of EDG in April of
2016? A. Yeah - MS.
SHROFF: I withdraw that.
Q. Let's just go
back to the state complaint,
shall we? Did you, by
any chance, ever find out how
Amol knew he was
referred to therapy? A.
No. Q. Did you ever try and
tell Karen: Hey, you
know, we may want to find out
why these two people who are
at each other know information
that is upsetting to one
developer, that is personal to
one developer, how does Amol
know this? Did you ever
ask? A. No." Call it Spy
Versus Spy. There was also a
glimpse at how Stith and
presumably other CIA witness
are being prepped, more on
Patreon here.
Inner City Press will continue
on the case.
On February
11, 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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