Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks
by Guardian staff and agency from US news | The Guardian on (#6JAHF)
Joshua Schulte, who prosecutors said was responsible for agency's largest data breach, also guilty of possessing child abuse images
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency's history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.
The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography", federal prosecutors said in a statement. The judge did not impose a life sentence as sought by prosecutors.
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