United States prosecutors are making the case that a former CIA coder shared classified information with the website WikiLeaks after a personal dispute with a colleague. The former coder, 33-year-old Joshua Schulte, has said he is being framed.
Schulte’s trial began on Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan, where he faces charges that include obtaining classified US government information without authorisation and illegally passing that data on to WikiLeaks. His first trial, which took place in 2020, came to an end with the jury deadlocked over the main charges.
