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Exposes Sealed Trial of Josh Schulte
Convicted of Wikileaks Vault7, Brutal
Kangaroo
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LITERARY
SDNY Review, July 14 – In June
and July 2022 former CIA hacker Joshua
Schulte was put on trial in a nearly
empty and partiallly sealed courtroom in
lower Manhattan.
Alongside an extradition fight in the UK
concerning Julian Assange of Wikileaks,
to which Schulte was charged and now
convicted of exfiltrating the CIA's
cyber tools such as "Brutal Kangaroo,"
there was little media coverage of
Schulte's trial.
Now there is a book.
The author was in the courtroom
each day, even during the sealed
witnesses as one of the two pool
reporters provided for after his
advocacy before Judges Paul A. Crotty
and then Jesse M. Furman of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
As the trial wound down, SDNY-admitted
lawyer Matthew Russell Lee won an order
unsealing portions of Schulte's
civil case challenging his conditions of
confinement including a prohibition
against any communications with any
media, imposed by former US Attorney
General Jeff Session but continued by
current AG Merrick Garland.
Material from that unsealing, the trial
and even some more speculative and
literary excursions featuring recurring
characters Kurt Wheelock and Michael
Randall Long, featured in the Ghislaine
Maxwell book "Maximum Maxwell" as noted
by New York Magazine, here,
made its way at the speed of the
Internet into the new 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,
Australia here;
paperbook forthcoming here.
This review will leave it to
other to find over-reaches and typos.
For his reporting, Lee was banned
from the United Nations in 2018 by SG
Antonio Guterres, whose Media
Accrediation chief Melissa Fleming has
ignored appeals from a UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression and, pro bono, the law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel.
One might surmise that history leads to
some of the book's (over?)
identification with the
defendant.
A full scope instantaneous view
of and taking off from trials like US v.
Joshua Schulte seems to be Inner City
Press' project
here.
And here
it is.
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