CBS News
By Cara Tabachnick
Updated on: February 1, 2024 / 6:43 PM EST / CBS News
Former CIA software engineer Joshua Adam Schulte was sentenced to 40 years on espionage and child pornography charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
At trial, the CIA’s former deputy director of digital innovation categorized Schulte’s release of a trove of CIA secrets as a “digital Pearl Harbor,” and said the disclosure caused exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the U.S., a statement from the Justice Department said