Jeffrey Sterling person
also: Serling, Sterling
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Claims (4)
Jeffrey Sterling spied_on
Iran book_quoted
“was 47 at the time of his sentencing, and was assigned from 1998 to the mid-2000s as an operational unit, to an operational unit that was overseeing Iran's program. It was dubbed Operation Merlin, according to the court documents. The gover…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 35:16
Jeffrey Sterling exposed
Operation Merlin book_quoted
“The federal grand jury in Virginia found that Sterling was guilty of nine criminal counts relating to charges that he had provided classified information to Risen. During the periods of 2001 to 2006, Risen wrote State of War, including a ch…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 34:43
Jeffrey Sterling member_of
CIA book_quoted
“the way the intelligence agency had handled national security risk relating to Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who was convicted on espionage charges in early 2015 for leaking classified information to the New York Times, James Risen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 32:02
CIA covered_up
Jeffrey Sterling guest_asserted
“prompts suspicion that Sterling was not the national security threat the agency pretended him to be, just someone else that could be targeted. Dean Boyd had been the director of the CIA's Office of Public Affairs, who had previously served …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 43:03
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▶ 32:02
the way the intelligence agency had handled national security risk relating to Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who was convicted on espionage charges in early 2015 for leaking classified information to the New York Times, James Risen…
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overseeing spies and assets in over 30 countries. He says that he befriended Sterling, who, like Osborne, was African-American. During the course of the discrimination lawsuit Sterling initiated against the CIA in 2000, the litigation was u…
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He says that he had decided to assist Sterling in his discrimination case because he felt like he had been railroaded inside the CIA, according to Osborne. He had been a CIA employee from 1957 to 84. I bet he saw a lot. Osborne was running …
▶ 33:43
Osborne says the CIA certainly was aware of his relationship with Sterling and or at least should have been as the world premier intelligence agency. Osborne said that the CIA never contacted him about Sterling prior to or during the course…
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And it had been ongoing as early as 2008, according to New York Times reporter James Risen. If the CIA was truly concerned about Sterling was leaking classified information, then the agency should have vetted anyone who had been in his conf…
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The federal grand jury in Virginia found that Sterling was guilty of nine criminal counts relating to charges that he had provided classified information to Risen. During the periods of 2001 to 2006, Risen wrote State of War, including a ch…
▶ 35:16
was 47 at the time of his sentencing, and was assigned from 1998 to the mid-2000s as an operational unit, to an operational unit that was overseeing Iran's program. It was dubbed Operation Merlin, according to the court documents. The gover…
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That was exchanged between Sterling and Risen between 2003 and 2005. None of them, none of them had a smoking gun or classified information in them. None of them. Sterling lawyers argued that the trail of emails and phone calls dovetailed i…
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by Risen. The defense argued that there was a number of other potential sources for Risen's book, including the Senate Select Intelligence Committee staffers, given Sterling in 2003 provided information to them legally as a whistleblower. W…
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operational with some flaw built in nuclear plans to Iran, Operation Merlin. Ultimately, the DOJ backed down from calling Rison as a witness as Sterling's trial got underway in mid-January of 2015. Government attorneys argued that Sterling …
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former CIA employee, motivated to strike back at the agency and that convictions based on strong circumstantial evidence was not out of the ordinary. You don't need any evidence. Just all of this other shit over here that's not actual evide…
▶ 40:57
He said that the agency may have pushed the criminal case against Sterling in retaliation for his whistleblowing as well as his already filed discrimination lawsuit. So Osborne points out that CIA attorneys did not try criminal cases and th…
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However, that does not absolve the CIA, he says, as part of the internal investigation to determine the extent of the leak, because there may be accomplices. What was compromised as a result of that? Because he had had a relationship with S…
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No one from that office ever contacted him, even though they knew they had a close personal relationship. Osborne adds that he placed a call to the CIA in early February of 2015, shortly after Sterling's conviction, but was never contacted …
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prompts suspicion that Sterling was not the national security threat the agency pretended him to be, just someone else that could be targeted. Dean Boyd had been the director of the CIA's Office of Public Affairs, who had previously served …
▶ 49:15
So essentially, a U.S. senator claimed that the CIA's Office of Security lied to the DOJ as part of an effort to launch a criminal investigation against the staffers who were investigating the CIA. That's the nuts and bolts of it. The natio…
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Saying, obviously, the information classification standards can be very flexible when it suits their purpose. As the CIA station chief in Burma once told me, lying is our stock in trade. So the end of the story is Serling was handed a 42-mo…
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hello good evening from berlin can you hear me all right yes um hello everyone on the panel as well good evening um thank you so much for bringing that up with jeffrey sterling i had the privilege of working with him advocating for him i wa…
▶ 1:05:27
eloquent man and you have to understand what happens to these people when they go after you like it's literally to bankrupt you destroy you try to destroy your marriages um there's a couple of films out there um i did put an article below b…