Fellow whistleblower Jeffery Sterling tweets upon UK Crown prosecutor James Lewis QC referencing his court case as a bench mark in the Assange hearing
Wikipedia:
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act for revealing details about Operation Merlin (covert operation to supply Iran with flawed nuclear warhead blueprints) to journalist James Risen.[5] The case was based on what the judge called “very powerful circumstantial evidence.”
Peter Mass writes ‘How Jeffrey Sterling Took On The CIA And Lost Everything‘
Jeffrey Sterling’s book ‘Unwanted Spy, The Persecution of an American Whistleblower’ is available at Bold Type Books