By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
One American spy is convicted and three Russian spies are exposed. A federal jury convicted former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling for leaking secrets to New York Times’ reporter James Risen. FP’s Justine Drennan: “The conviction is a major win for the Obama administration, which has cracked down on whistleblowers — and the reporters to whom they pass their information.” Meanwhile, in New York, three men — Igor Sporyshev, 40, and Victor Podobnyy, 27, posing as Russian government officials, and Evgeny Buryakov, 39, working for a Russian bank — were arrested for allegedly trying to collect …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
