Prosecutors to retry ex-CIA employee on espionage charges in WikiLeaks case

Published May 19, 2020 3:23pm ET



Federal prosecutors will retry a former CIA programmer on espionage charges after a jury couldn’t come to a decision about whether he leaked a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton told a judge Monday that the Justice Department “does intend to retry Mr. Schulte on the espionage charges.”

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