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In this courtroom sketch, Joshua Schulte (centre) is seated at the defence table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations, Wednesday March 4, 2020, in New York.
FORMER Central Intelligence Agency software engineer Joshua Schulte has been convicted of leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website in the so-called Vault 7 case.
Jurors in a Manhattan federal court found him guilty on eight charges of espionage and one of obstruction over what has been described as the biggest theft of classified material in the spy agency’s history.
Mr Schulte, who represented himself in court, faces decades behind bars for leaking 8,761 documents, an action which prosecutors said was a deliberate attempt to harm the CIA by a disgruntled employee.
US Justice Department says the ‘reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are’. But media freedom advocates warn that Trump's ‘war on the press is looking for another victim’
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
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GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD