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Retrial Schulte Questions FBI on Dirty
Network Pastas Past Blogger in the Back
By Matthew
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LITERARY SDNY,
June 15 – Josh Schulte had
four years to prepare for this
trial, to get ready to not
only face but question his
accusers. And today would be
the first day.
On the stand was
FBI Agent Evanchec, who
Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday morning on direct
described how Schulte was the
only suspect. How his hands
had been shaking when they
interviewed him in the
Pershing Square restaurant.
And how he said, Texans aren't
traitors.
And how
after AUSA Lockard said, No
further questions, he was on.
Good afternoon, Schulte told
Evanchec, and got it
returned.
Schulte
asked about the CIA office
where he had worked, which was
usually described as top
secret and in an undisclosed
location. Schulte asked,
Doesn't the CIA interview all
applicant there?
Evanchec
said he didn't know. Doesn't
the building have a visitors'
center? Again, Evanchec didn't
know, said he was only
concerned with the vaults
where Schulte worked.
Schulte
got Evanchec to say he was
within earshot of a
conversation of Mike Pompeo,
then the Director of the CIA.
But it wasn't nailed out - or
at least, not year.
One juror,
it emerged, worked for the
TSA. There was a concern they
might hear someone talking
about the case as they walked
through the gate. A narrow
gate, that. Neither side
objected, though some did
online.
The LAN in
DEVLAN didn't really mean
Local Access Network, it
emerged, since two overseas
CIA offices could sign in.
Passwords
were shared; Evanchec agreed
it was called a dirty network.
How then to prove anything?
Did the leak come from
Confluence? Which days version
had it come from? It seemed
the date had changed.
Things got ragged as the
afternoon wore on. Evanchec
started saying, I don't
recall, and no amount of "does
this refresh your
recollection" would get past
it. Evanchec declined to be
reminded of a trip to
Baltimore, which might or
might not come up later in the
trial.
Judge Furman cut
in at one point and said the
only pending question pending,
does it refresh your
recollection, whatever it is,
even just a bowl of fettuccine
alfredo.
To Kurt Wheelock,
live tweeting these exchanges
has he had other trial like
Avenatti's before this same
Judge Furman, it echoed
Avenatti's self represented
story about the government's
case being like a cockroach in
a bowl of pasta.
Some said
Schulte had only converted to
Islam to get better food in
prison. But how would they
know? More on Patreon here.
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