Former CIA Insider Convicted, Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Crimes Against America

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Prosecutors called it a “digital Pearl Harbor.”

In a domestic espionage case that hasn’t gotten nearly the public attention it deserves, a former CIA employee who worked in an elite computer intelligence unit has been sentenced to four decades in prison for crimes that included exposing United States secrets in the cyberintelligence world.

And the true extent of the damage might never be known.

According to The Associated Press, Joshua Schulte, 35, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to 40 years for releasing highly classified information about the Central Intelligence Agency’s methods of collecting information in the computer world.

Shulte was also sentenced for possession of child pornography, according to the AP. (Now, who would ever believe that a guy who betrayed his country to WikiLeaks might have other character flaws, too?)

Prosecutors called the case a “digital Pearl Harbor,” ABC News reported.

“We will likely never know the full extent of the damage, but I have no doubt it was massive,” Judge Jesse M. Furman said, while pronouncing the sentence, according to the AP.

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