| Josh Schulte
Got 40 Years For Wikileaks Vault7 Now
Press Wins Some CIPA Unsealing
By Matthew
Russell Lee Schulte
Book
SDNY,
April 8 – In June
and July 2022 former CIA hacker Joshua
Schulte was put on trial in a nearly
empty and partially sealed courtroom in
lower Manhattan.
Inner City
Press covered it and the next trials -
see book below - and live tweeted the
sentencing, thread here.
Schulte
compared his conditions to Nazi
concentration camps, drawing a rebuke
from SDNY Judge Jesse M. Furman.
He did not, however, get the life
sentence urged by DOJ, but rather 40
years.
There is a book.
"Brutal
Kangaroo: WikiLeaks Verdict Against Josh
Schulte, and Other Whistleblowers:
Convicted of sending the CIA's Vault 7
cyber tools to Wikileaks, Schulte
remains in jail under DOJ SAMs," by
Matthew Russell Lee.
U.S. e-book here,
UK here.
And
now on April 8, 2024, an unsealing win
before Judge Jesse M. Furman: "Inner
City Press, members of the press,
emptywheel, oppose the Government’s
motion. See ECF No. 978 (“ICP Motion”);
But the First Amendment guarantees the
press and public access to most, if not
all, criminal proceedings, and CIPA
cannot abrogate that venerable
constitutional right. The net result is
that, even where a pretrial hearing is
properly held in a closed courtroom
pursuant to CIPA Section 6, a transcript
of that proceeding — redacted to protect
classified information and to preserve
other higher values — must be made
publicly available. Accordingly, the
Government’s motion to keep the
transcripts at issue here sealed must be
and is DENIED. To the extent that the
Government believes that additional
redactions beyond those that were made
in connection with the declassification
process are justified, it shall propose
them, in accordance with the procedures
set forth in the Court’s Individual
Rules and Practices for Criminal Cases,
no later than May 2, 2024. In the
absence of an application for leave to
make additional redactions by that
deadline, the Government shall docket
the transcripts at issue no later than
May 3, 2024." Order on DocumentCloud here.
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