Reporter Absent From Armada of Secret Witnesses in CIA Leak Trial

By AMANDA LOVIZA-VICKERY
Courthouse News Service
Jan. 15, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) - With prosecutors no longer trying to make New York Times reporter James Risen testify about his sources, defense counsel for former CIA agent Jeffrey Alexander Sterling opened the leak trial Tuesday by blasting the lack of evidence.

The trial's start comes four years after prosecutors labeled Sterling as the source of confidential CIA information published in Risen's 2006 book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."

Prosecutors say only Sterling could have provided the specifics that appeared in Chapter 9 of "State of War," about a CIA plan called Operation Merlin to sell faulty nuclear weapons blueprints to Iran.

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