NY Times reporter won't have to testify in CIA leak case

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last updated 13 January 2015

New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer charged with giving him details about a failed operation in Iran.

Jeffrey Sterling stands accused of passing Risen information about a plan to disrupt Iran's nuclear program, The Times reports, information that prosecutors say Risen shared in his 2006 book State of War. In a hearing last week, Risen said that he had multiple sources and would not name any of them.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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