Why Did CIA Analyst Asif Rahman Do It?

Update: 2025-02-17

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Chip Gibbons, the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola to further discuss the Espionage Act prosecution against CIA analyst Asif Rahman. Rahman pled guilty to violating the Espionage Act in January. For The Dissenter, Chip reported on several strange details in the plea agreement, and he outlines some of the questions that are still unanswered.

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