Trial of Programmer Accused in CIA Leak Ends in Hung Jury – By Nicole Hong (The New York Times) / March 9 2020
An office of the CIA outside Washington turned into a crime scene March 7, 2017.
WikiLeaks had just published a trove of confidential CIA documents that revealed secret methods the spy agency used to penetrate the computer networks of foreign governments and terrorists.
Investigators scrambled to find the culprit, seizing more than 1,000 devices from the CIA as top-secret operations and computer networks shut down. Eventually, they arrested Joshua Schulte, 31, who worked as a computer engineer for the agency.
But Monday, in a muddled outcome for the government, a federal jury in Manhattan could not agree on whether to convict Schulte of the biggest theft of classified documents in CIA history.
After hearing four weeks of testimony, the jurors deadlocked on eight counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. They did convict Schulte on two other counts — contempt of court and making false statements to the FBI.
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