Security News > 2020 > November > June Retrial Date Set for Ex-CIA Engineer in Leak Case
The retrial of a former CIA software engineer charged with leaking secrets to WikiLeaks in an espionage case will begin June 7, a judge said Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty set the date for Joshua Schulte over the objections of a defense lawyer who said it would be impossible to properly prepare for a trial that started before August.
Prosecutors have argued that Schulte was a disgruntled employee who pulled off the largest leak of classified information in CIA history as an act of revenge.
Schulte, originally from Lubbock, Texas, was blamed for the theft after a year-long investigation that commenced when the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks published the so-called Vault 7 leak in 2017.
Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff told jurors at Schulte's first trial that investigators could not be sure who took the data because the CIA network in question "Was the farthest thing from being secure."