All Articles on Jeffrey Sterling
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News 'Guilty of Embarrassing Government': CIA Whistleblower Gets 42-Month Sentence Prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling stands in stark contrast to leniency granted to former CIA director General David Petraeus Read more |
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Views DOJ Claims Grossly Disparate Treatment Will 'Promote Respect for the Law' On Thursday, David Petraeus will be sentenced in North Carolina. If all goes as his lawyers and the government have arranged, he will get a year of probation for leaking some of this country’s most sensitive secrets to his mistress. On May 11 (the date has been postponed from this week), Jeffrey... Read more |
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Views Whistleblowers and the Press Heavyweights Following the late January guilty verdicts in the espionage trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, more proof emerged — if any more were needed — that many elite mainstream journalists abhor whistleblowers and think they should go to prison when they divulge classified information. One would... Read more |
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News Daniel Ellsberg: Petraeus Case Shows Hypocrisy of Whistleblower Crackdown If Petraeus did not commit a felony, neither did Snowden, Manning, Sterling, or Kiriakou, says leaker of Pentagon Papers Read more |
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Views CIA Evidence from Whistleblower Trial Could Tilt Iran Nuclear Talks A month after former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was convicted on nine felony counts with circumstantial metadata , the zealous prosecution is now having potentially major consequences — casting doubt on the credibility of claims by the U.S. government that Iran has developed a nuclear weapons... Read more |
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Views Yes, Eric Holder Does Do the Intelligence Community’s Bidding in Leak Prosecutions The second-to-last witness in the government’s case against Jeffrey Sterling, FBI Special Agent Ashley Hunt, introduced a number of things she had collected over the course of her 7.5 year investigation into James Risen’s chapter on Operation Merlin. That included a few things — most notably two... Read more |
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Views CIA Mission: Destroy the Whistleblower and Perfume the Stench of ‘Operation Merlin’ The leak trial of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling never got near a smoking gun, but the entire circumstantial case was a smokescreen. Prosecutors were hell-bent on torching the defendant to vindicate Operation Merlin, nine years after a book by James Risen reported that it “may have been one of the... Read more |
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Views The Invisible Man: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower. Sterling’s indictment four years ago received fleeting news coverage that recited the government’s charges. From the outset, the Justice Department portrayed him as bitter and... Read more |
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News Guilty Verdict for CIA Agent Called 'New Low' in War on Whistleblowers As case grounded 'largely on circumstantial evidence' results in guilty verdict, advocates for Jeffrey Sterling say government has gone too far Read more |
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Views Jury Convicts Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling of Leaking to Journalist & Violating Espionage Act Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling has been convicted by a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, of charges brought against him because the government argued he leaked classified information about a top secret CIA operation in Iran to New York Times reporter James Risen. Sterling’s case was the first case... Read more |