Mistrial declared at federal trial of accused CIA leaker Joshua Schulte
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday found a former CIA programmer guilty of lying to the FBI and of contempt — but failed to reach a verdict on the far more serious charges that he turned a trove of secret documents from the spy agency over to Wikileaks.
US District Judge Paul Crotty declared a mistrial in the case of accused leaker Joshua Schulte after the jury declared itself “extremely deadlocked” on the eight most serious charges at the trial — including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information.
Schulte, 31, still faces up to five years on the lesser counts.
Prosecutors accused the onetime programmer of pulling off the largest breach of classified information in the history of the CIA when he allegedly gave hackers access to the agency’s top-secret hacking tools.
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