Federal prosecutors are seeking to conceal the names of classified U.S. military units and the identities of military witnesses in an upcoming trial against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. special operations soldier accused of using classified information to place wagers concerning the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
In a pretrial request filed on Oct. 26 with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, prosecutors argued the disclosure in open court of the names of units and personnel involved in Maduro’s capture would present a significant security risk for those units and personnel….