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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the leaking-on-what? dept.

Justice Dept. charges former Minnesota FBI agent with leaking secret document to news outlet

A former Minneapolis FBI agent who sought to expose what he called "systemic biases" within the bureau has been charged after allegedly leaking secret documents to a national news reporter, according to federal criminal charges filed in Minnesota this week.

The charges, filed by prosecutors for the Justice Department's National Security Division, are the first to come in Minnesota since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a broad crackdown on government leaks last year.

A two-page felony information, a charging document that typically signals an imminent guilty plea, outlines two counts filed against Terry James Albury of unlawfully disclosing and retaining national defense information.

Albury is alleged to have unlawfully disclosed classified information between February 2016 and January 31, 2017. The Intercept published a series of stories, The FBI's Secret Rules, on January 31, 2017:

The FBI Gives Itself Lots of Rope to Pull in Informants

Over two previous presidential administrations, the FBI, enabled by complacent congressional oversight in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, has transformed itself from a criminal law enforcement organization into an intelligence-gathering operation whose methods are more similar to those of the CIA and NSA. With 35,000 employees and more than 15,000 informants, today's FBI is an intelligence agency without a historical peer in the United States.

Recruiting and managing informants, known in the FBI's parlance as "confidential human sources," is one of the most crucial ways in which the bureau gathers intelligence. Confidential FBI documents obtained exclusively by The Intercept reveal for the first time how the bureau approaches those tasks — including its use of a number of tactics that raise concerns about the civil liberties of those being targeted for recruitment.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:01PM (4 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:01PM (#660054) Homepage Journal

    Given all the self-righteous rhetoric spewed out by SoylentNews ACs, it must be the case that they are the most moronic posters of them all.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:39PM (#660085)

    Of course, in your case, you've managed to be both at the same time.

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 29 2018, @07:06PM (1 child)

      by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 29 2018, @07:06PM (#660139) Homepage Journal

      Thanks AC!

      You prove my point for me.

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:46PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:46PM (#660185)

        That goes without saying.

  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @03:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @03:24AM (#660276)

    Shut yer banana hole monkey man