Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
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#2firstname bunchofnumbers account heavily dabbling in 'E'-anon (an offshoot of jim watkins qanon?) shit on telegram?
am I a bit off base here in feeling like there's a better primary source for this?
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#3Seems like it's supposedly written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#4firstname bunchofnumbers account heavily dabbling in 'E'-anon (an offshoot of jim watkins qanon?) shit on telegram? am I a bit off base here in feeling like there's a better primary source for this?
Marcy Wheeler's take: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1603037689846046721
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#5Primary source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6359557/979/united-stat... (maybe the URL could be changed to this?)
Schulte's lawyer then filed this response to the court: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6359557/980/united-stat...
> Immediately upon receiving the Court’s Order and the two letters sent to the Court by Mr. Schulte, I tried to contact the BOP. I telephoned the legal department. No one answered the phone. There is no voicemail option available, and I could not leave a message. I emailed legal and got no reply. I emailed the BOP group email asking for a response and for an emergency legal call. I received no response. I repeated the entire procedure again this morning – and was told by the person who answered the MDC phone that no one in legal answers the phone and no voice mail is available. The person declined to give me her name.
> In its email this morning, the government informed that it had emailed the BOP, attached the Court’s Order and Mr. Schulte’s letter, and had received a response from the BOP. I asked the government for a copy of those emails and also asked that they copy Mr. Schulte’s counsel on future emails between the BOP and the government about our client’s medical issues. The request, I made clear, was limited to being copied on emails regarding Mr. Schulte’s health and the BOP’s response to the medical issues. The government refused to do so. I note that defense counsel copies the government and BOP on our emails on medical issues because doing so helps protect Mr. Schulte’s health and safety.
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#6There is an allegory in eastern religions about our inner world. When you anger the high priest of selfish ambition, your ambition, he locks you up in a dungeon, isolated from all human contact; the dungeon is located right next to the priest's room and right in front of the shrine of madness. That is the nature of this priest's cruelty. CIA was apparently inspired by this story.
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#7This is making me think about Obama's 'we tortured some folks,' and I fear that this is used as a warning/deterrent wherein the message is clear for what awaits Assange if he is extradited.
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#8Seems like it's supposedly written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte
Let's say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#9Seems like it's supposedly written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte
Let's say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?
> why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?
Yes. It is deterring whistleblowers. The government has an interest in spying and torturing people who expose how they do that deters whistleblowing.
> In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer serving a thirty-month term in federal prison for publicly identifying an intelligence operative involved in torture. It’s a pattern: the whistleblowers are punished, sometimes severely, while the perpetrators of the crimes they expose remain free.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/obamas-crackdown-w...
Re: Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
#10For what it's worth, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about the conditions he describes, it's just another day (month, year, decade, life sentence) for any prisoner at a supermax prison like ADX Florence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence
Of course, the facts that this is considered normal in the US and that anybody is in there for non-violent offenses are outrageous, but here as ever the US penal system is the wild outlier of the Western world.