AP -- The case of former CIA officer convicted of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran's nuclear program is heading to a federal appeals court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Jeffrey Sterling's case Tuesday. Sterling was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison after being convicted in 2015 of leaking ...

Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison over leaking classified information about Washington's efforts todisruptIran's nuclear program to a reporter. The former agent received the verdict after appearing in Alexandria Federal Court in Virginia on Monday. Prosecutors had called for 20 years or ...

Evidence emerging from a CIA leak case could change the outcome of United Nations assessments of Irans nuclear program, Bloomberg reported Friday. The revelations emerged fromthe trial ofJeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent convicted ofleaking details ofa 2000 plot wherein the agency fed faulty blueprints fornuclear weapons toIran inan effort ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking details of a covert mission to derail Iran's nuclear program in a case that, until the eve of the trial, was as much about the journalist who published the leaks as it was the accused leaker. The government gave up on its effort to force New York Times reporter James Risen ...

[caption id="attachment_145561" align="alignright" width="198"] An ex-CIA manager says 90 US officials knew about a covert mission targeting Irans nuclear energy program. (File photo)[/caption] A former manager of the US spy agency CIA has revealed thatmore than 90 government officials were aware of a covert espionage mission aimed at sabotaging Irans ...

[caption id="attachment_137341" align="alignright" width="170"] New York Times reporter James Risen[/caption] New York Times reporter James Risen has been ordered to appear in court over the revelations that CIA tried to undermine Irans peaceful nuclear program. He should appear at a Jan. 5 hearing to give limited testimony in advance of the trial ...

[caption id="attachment_136356" align="alignright" width="115"] People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with binary code and a Central Inteligence Agency (CIA) emblem, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney GeneralEric Holder has decided not to force ...