The Day after I Blew Off Josh Schulte He Started Deleting "Suspicious Emails"

"On the evening of August 13, 2018, Joshua Schulte activated a Samsung phone he had just gotten in a swap with another detainee at Metropolitan Correctional Center. On August 14, according to a page of his prison notebook introduced at trial, he wrote up the beginnings of his plan for an "information war" conceived - Schulte claimed at trial - after doing some kind of drugs on August 8. The way is clear. I will setup a wordpress of joshschulte.wordpress.com and presumption of innocence.wordpress.com. From here, I will stage my information war."

""Give me a phone and a blog and I will change the world," he wrote in the margin of the same page where he planned out how to manage the limited charge time on his phone: "1 charge per day//use from 3-death." On August 21, according to another of the pages introduced at trial, Schulte made plans to cover his tracks. In between those two days, August 14 and August 21, 2018, Schulte, his cellmate, Omar Amanat, and/or Amanat's brother, Irfan, pitched me via email that Schulte could, "prove to be the most valuable source of information you have ever had." The day after I declined that offer, Schulte started "delet[ing] suspicious emails.""

"At 6:52PM ET on August 14, I received this email from the psalms100@protonmail account. (I've replaced the bitly links with direct links indicating the bitly code, but have not fixed typos.) Hello Marcy : Confidential Intelligence Source Dear Marcy, I am writing on behalf of a senior ex NSA/CIA Intellgence officer who spearheaded many of the CIA's technology hacking and counter-hacking intelligence efforts against state sponsored hackers overseas between 2010-November, 2016. He is currently imprisoned inside MCC (aka Manhattan's Guantanamo) next to El Chapo and the Chelsea Bomber. He is charged with the largest leak in the history of the CIA: the Vault 7 release to Wikileaks. The Government does not allow him to electronically communicate with"

Joshua Schulte activated a smuggled Samsung phone at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the evening of August 13, 2018. On August 14 he drafted plans in his prison notebook to launch an "information war" and to create joshschulte.wordpress.com and presumptionofinnocence.wordpress.com to stage it. He inscribed a slogan and a strict phone charging schedule to manage limited charge time. By August 21 he drafted plans to cover his tracks. Between those dates Schulte and associates, including cellmate Omar Amanat and Irfan Amanat, pitched contact via email and Schulte then deleted suspicious emails.

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