The bulk of the sentence imposed on Joshua Schulte, 35, in Manhattan federal court came for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.
Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks::In ‘most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history’.
Telling the truth hurts those who already have money and power. Fascism enriches those who already have money and power so long as they keep doing what the government says. We will very soon have to reckon with the fact that fascism is great for buisness and the economy and the US is not ready to say no to that.
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Crazy how he gets 40 years for leaking secrets, but literal insurrectionists are barely getting 1/4 that, with very few exceptions.
Telling the truth hurts those who already have money and power. Fascism enriches those who already have money and power so long as they keep doing what the government says. We will very soon have to reckon with the fact that fascism is great for buisness and the economy and the US is not ready to say no to that.