Guy Taylor and Andrew Blake at
the the Washington Times report that a CIA employee or contractor supplied
WikiLeaks with classified documents.
Federal law enforcement
authorities believe it was a vetted member of the U.S. intelligence community —
either an official CIA employee or a contractor — who supplied WikiLeaks with a
trove of documents that the anti-secrecy group published last month purporting
to expose the agency’s vast clandestine cyberoperations.
While the CIA has refused to
comment on an investigation into the matter, intelligence sources who spoke
anonymously with The Washington Times on Thursday did not push back against the
veracity of news reports that the agency and the FBI are engaged in a manhunt
for the suspected leaker within the U.S. government.
CNN reported Thursday night
that federal prosecutors are separately weighing whether to bring criminal
charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at
a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents as well as last month’s
CIA leak.
The network cited unnamed
sources behind the claim, but noted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had
said at a news conference Thursday that the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange, who has been holed up inside the Ecuadoran embassy in London since
2012, is a “priority.”
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