To: tejek who wrote (856140 ) 5/11/2015 8:00:04 PM From: Broken_Clock Respond to of 1574093 Go ahead, explain Obomber's policies to this poor sap. +++ MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015 09:00 AM HSTFormer CIA officer sentenced to 3½ years in Iran leaks caseASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling leaves federal court in Alexandria, Va. A former CIA officer convicted of leaking details of a secret mission to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions is making his final pitch for a lenient sentence.Sterling of O'Fallon, Mo., is scheduled for sentencing Monday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria. He faces a recommended sentence of 20 years or more under federal sentencing guidelines for violations of the Espionage Act. A jury convicted him of telling New York Times journalist James Risen about a classified plan to trick the Iranian government by slipping flawed nuclear blueprints through a Russian intermediary. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)(Credit: AP) ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA officer has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for leaking details of a secret mission to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Jeffrey Sterling of O’Fallon, Missouri, was facing a recommended sentence of 20 years or more under federal sentencing guidelines for violations of the Espionage Act. A jury convicted him of telling New York Times journalist James Risen about a classified plan to trick the Iranian government by slipping flawed nuclear blueprints through a Russian intermediary. Prosecutors were seeking a stiff sentence at Monday’s hearing in federal court in Alexandria. The defense said his punishment should be more in line with that of former CIA Director David Petraeus. He got probation last month for leaking classified information to his biographer, who was also his mistress.