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WikiLeaks began releasing some of the CIA’s hacking tools in March 2017. The US government has all but publicly acknowledged the embarrassing leak from the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence. President Donald Trump told a television host then, “I just want people to know the CIA was hacked, and a lot of things taken.”
Prosecutors said last month that they expected to bring charges by July.
Schulte’s lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said in May that her client was “deeply saddened” that he might face espionage-related charges.
On Monday, she said: “When all the evidence is clear, he’s hardly the villain that the government tries to make him out to be.”
In a release, US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said unlawful disclosure of classified intelligence “can pose a grave threat to our national security, potentially endangering the safety of all Americans.”
William F. Sweeney Jr., head of the New York FBI office, said Schulte “utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims. As an employee of the CIA, Schulte took an oath to protect this country, but he blatantly endangered it by the transmission of classified Information.”
AP
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