Ex-CIA Officer Convicted of Leaking Classified Intel to a Reporter

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was found guilty Monday of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, the Associated Pressย reports.ย  Suggested Reading Tupac Associate Young Noble’s Death Illuminates Alarming Fact About Suicide Rates Among Black Men Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Recent Dissent Proves She’s Unafraid to Challenge Her Colleaguesโ€”Unlike Clarence Thomas After…

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, was found guilty Monday of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter, the Associated Pressย reports.ย 

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The top-secret information included details about a U.S. mission to compromise Iranโ€™s nuclear program. A Virginia jury convicted Sterling, 47, โ€œof all nine counts he faced in federal court,โ€ AP explained.

The classified information that was given to New York Times reporter James Risen ended up in Risenโ€™s 2006 book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified during the trial and said that the mission was โ€œone of the governmentโ€™s most closely held secretsโ€โ€”alluding to the idea that someone must have tipped Risen off, according to AP.

Federal prosecutors had been trying to subpoena Risen for years to get him to reveal his source, but he refusedโ€”even when threatened with jail, AP says.

Sterling had filed a โ€œracial discrimination complaintโ€ against the CIA during his tenure at the agency, according to AP.

Sterling will be sentenced in April and at that time will have the opportunity to appeal his conviction.

Read more at the Associated Press.

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