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A former CIA engineer is convicted in a massive theft of secrets released by WikiLeaks

Joshua Schulte, who represented himself in his retrial, told jurors that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.

NEW YORK — A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday federal charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.

, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the

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