In Josh
Schulte Case Press Won Some CIPA Unsealing
Now US Seeks Stay Press Opposes
By Matthew
Russell Lee Schulte
Book
SDNY,
May 1 – 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.
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 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.
After
4 pm on May 1, the US Attorney's Office
wrote to Judge Furman for a stay while
it considers whether to appeal. Inner
City Press before 6 pm filed opposition,
on DocumentCloud here.
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