| In CIA
Wikileaks Trial of Schulte Secrecy
Triggers Digging Leading To Corrupt UN P5
Part 1
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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LITERARY SDNY,
June 20 – In the retrial of
Joshua Schulte for
exfiltrating Vault 7 from the
CIA to Wikileaks, the
courtroom was sealed for the
CIA witnesses so that no one
could see or report what they
looked like.
The exception was
for two pool reporters. Kurt
Wheelock was one of them - the
only one, in fact. No one
else, it seemed, cared.
Beyond the
sealing of the courtroom, the
names of the CIA witnesses and
even those cited in testimony
or exhibits were shortened or
outright changed. One
exception was the first CIA
witness, Anthony Leonis.
Kurt
was in the gallery of
Courtroom 15A, right behind
Schulte's parents, while
Leonis was on the witness
stand. He won't be physically
described here but his manner
was bureaucratic.
He repeatedly
said, This wasn't the type of
human resources problem you
wanted in your third week on
the job.
Leonis
seemed to mean, his third week
as a supervisor of a branch in
the CIA's CCI. But when
Schulte, representing himself
though with a slew of
Post-in(TM) notes and
whispered instructions from
his stand-by counsel, asked
Leonis where he worked before
being at the CIA, Assistant US
Attorney Michael Lockard
shouted, "Objection!"
Judge Jesse
M. Furman quickly said,
"Sustained. Mr. Schulte,
remember what we said at
sidebar."
The sidebar had
taken place with white noise,
even in the sealed courtroom.
And that was it. Schulte moved
on.
But Kurt
Wheelock didn't.
As soon as
he got back in the Press Room,
Kurt in Incognito Mode
whatever its utility Googled
Anthony Leonis, since they'd
said that was his real name.
There was one
who'd graduated from high
school in California and
played baseball there. An
older man, with the same name,
had died there at 80 years
old. Father of the CIA
agent?
There was an Anthony Leonis
who had been a Human Resources
specialist for 35 years. Too
old, despite the H.R.
irony.
Then Kurt remembered where
he'd heard the
name. It was on
his last job, or beat. At
the United Nations, from
which he was now banned from
even entering as a tourist.
One of the cronies of
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres had mentioned,
during one of Guterres' many
vacuous photo ops, a project
they were working on with:
Anthony Leonis.
Kurt had
written the name down on the
back of a Metro North Railroad
ticket stub in his back pocket
as soon as he came downstairs
from the 38th floor, sitting
in the glassed-in focus booth
he'd taken to working in after
they evicted him from his UN
office. He'd transferred the
name to the reporter's
notebook he kept, same as he
did now.
But why
would the United Nations, or
at least its boss Tony
Guterres, be working with a US
CIA officer? A spook, a spy, a
hacker? Was this Tony helper
the same Tony Leonis as in the
sealed courtroom, with its
heavy drapes held closed with
the big black clips Kurt's
friend Michael Randall Long
still used on legal pleading
when they got too long?
Even as the
re-trial of Josh Schulte
rumbled on, or even if it
progress into a third trial on
the nasty images charges, Kurt
would follow it up. But he
would need help from Michael
Randall Long. They would be at
it again.
To be continues -
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