But despite months of investigation, prosecutors have been unable to bring charges against the man, who is a former CIA employee being held in a Manhattan jail on unrelated charges. Schulte’s connection to the leak investigation has not been previously reported. But that failed to provide the evidence that prosecutors needed to indict Schulte with illegally giving the information to WikiLeaks. At the time of the leak, people who had worked with that group said that suspicion had mainly focused on contractors, not full-time CIA employees such as Schulte. Following the search of his apartment in March 2017, prosecutors waited six months to bring the child pornography charges.

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2018 18:59 UTC