Today, september 7th 2017, wikileaks publishes four secret documents from the protego project of the cia, along with 37 related documents (proprietary hardware/software manuals from. Wikileaks has released a huge set of files that it calls year zero and which mark the biggest exposure of cia spying secrets ever. The bulk of the sentence imposed on joshua schulte, 35, in manhattan federal court came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of cia secrets by wikileaks in 2017.
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Schulte, 35, handed wikileaks a trove of cia cyber espionage tools known as vault 7, in what federal prosecutors called some of the most heinous, brazen violations of the. Are they real and are they a risk? Evidence at the trial showed schulte worked for an elite cia hacking unit, became disgruntled at work and may have leaked the material in a spiteful attempt to lash back at his.
The inspiration for wikileaks was daniel ellsberg 's release of the pentagon papers in 1971.
The american public should be deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect america against terrorists. Vault 7 is a series of documents that wikileaks began to publish on 7 march 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the united states central intelligence agency (cia) to perform. History founding julian assange is a founding member of the wikileaks staff. Today, tuesday 7 march 2017, wikileaks begins its new series of leaks on the u.s.
