29 Facts About Joshua Schulte

Joshua Adam Schulte was born on September 25,1988 and is a former Central Intelligence Agency employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Joshua Schulte grew up in Lubbock, Texas, with three younger brothers.

Joshua Schulte's father, Roger, is a financial adviser and his mother, Deanna, is a high-school guidance counselor.

Joshua Schulte was fascinated by computers as a child, and by the time he was in high school, had begun building them.

Some former students recalled Joshua Schulte exposing his genitals and trying to touch others or get them to touch him.

Joshua Schulte graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 with a degree in computer engineering.

From January 2010 to May 2010, Joshua Schulte was employed as a systems engineer by the National Security Agency, including time spent within the Technology Directorate.

Conflicts with another employee, which included Joshua Schulte making fat jokes and claiming the other had made death threats, led to both being reassigned.

Joshua Schulte's manager said Schulte refused to work from his new desk.

In 2013, Joshua Schulte posted snippets of code from OSB Project Wizard on his public GitHub page.

In February 2014, Joshua Schulte uploaded at least five copies of Project Wizard to his public website.

The prosecution alleged that Joshua Schulte was motivated by spite and revenge to steal backup files on April 20,2016.

Joshua Schulte had not returned his special black government passport when he left the CIA and was scheduled to fly to Mexico days later, but was stopped when the FBI confiscated his passport.

On May 15,2018, both The Washington Post and The New York Times published articles about Joshua Schulte being a suspect in a federal investigation concerning the unauthorized disclosure of classified information to WikiLeaks.

The government alleged that Joshua Schulte, while making phone calls from prison in May 2018, had distributed "Protected Search Warrant Materials to his family members for purposes of dissemination to other third parties, including members of the media", some of which included classified information.

Joshua Schulte called the possession of child pornography, with which he was charged, a "victimless crime", and said the images and videos were not his, but had been uploaded without his knowledge by others onto a server he operated and let them host whatever they wanted on it.

Court papers quoted messages by Joshua Schulte that suggested he was aware of the images.

Joshua Schulte was not publicly named, but was identified as Schulte's roommate at the time.

Joshua Schulte informed investigators that she passed out one night with no memory of what happened, and that the photograph was not consensual.

Joshua Schulte was unable to identify the person who took the picture and molested her.

Prosecutors in Loudoun County said an analysis of Joshua Schulte's hands confirmed they were the hands in the picture.

On December 14,2017, Senior US District Judge Paul A Crotty revoked bail in New York and had Schulte remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal of the Southern District of New York.

Joshua Schulte has since been detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Federal prosecutors asserted that Joshua Schulte committed "the single biggest leak of classified national defense information in the history of the CIA" to take revenge on his former colleagues and bosses.

Joshua Schulte wrote articles that prosecutors said were misleading and contained misinformation and classified information.

Joshua Schulte faced a separate federal trial on charges of possessing child pornography.

On July 13,2022, Joshua Schulte was convicted at retrial on nine counts related to illegal handling of classified information as well as obstruction of justice.

Joshua Schulte entered a plea of not guilty a week later and was released on bail two days later.

Joshua Schulte was imprisoned in Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York and Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn.