New York Times reporter James Risen (center) leaves federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Jan. 5, 2015.
Photo: AP
[From article]
A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter.
Jurors convicted 47-year-old Jeffrey Sterling, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of all nine counts he faced in federal court. On the third day of deliberations, the jurors had told the judge that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. But they delivered guilty verdicts later in the afternoon after the judge urged them to keep talking.
At issue in the two-week trial: Who told journalist James Risen about the secret mission, one that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified was one of the government’s most closely held secrets as well as one of its best chances to thwart Iran’s nuclear-weapons ambitions?
http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/ex-cia-agent-guilty-of-leaking-state-secrets-to-journalist/
Ex-CIA agent guilty of leaking state secrets to journalist
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 26, 2015 | 4:08pm
[From article]
A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter.
Jurors convicted 47-year-old Jeffrey Sterling, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of all nine counts he faced in federal court. On the third day of deliberations, the jurors had told the judge that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. But they delivered guilty verdicts later in the afternoon after the judge urged them to keep talking.
At issue in the two-week trial: Who told journalist James Risen about the secret mission, one that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified was one of the government’s most closely held secrets as well as one of its best chances to thwart Iran’s nuclear-weapons ambitions?
http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/ex-cia-agent-guilty-of-leaking-state-secrets-to-journalist/
Ex-CIA agent guilty of leaking state secrets to journalist
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 26, 2015 | 4:08pm
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