The Department of Justice has charged a former FBI agent with leaking information to the media.
Terry James Albury worked as an agent in Minnesota and was arrested after the bureau linked him to leaked documents that appeared online. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, agents found evidence of Albury taking photos of FBI documents in his office at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Albury was charged with two counts of unlawfully disclosing and retaining national defense information. The documents he is charged with leaking were about FBI informants and another "relating to threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country."
Last January, The Intercept published an FBI document about informants. The Star-Tribune noted FBI agents linked Albury to several other bureau documents that appeared on the website.
The Intercept's editor-in-chief Betsy Reed told The Hill she would not comment on the website's use of anonymous sources.
"News reports have suggested that the prosecution may be linked to stories published by The Intercept. We do not discuss anonymous sources," Reed said. "The use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers seeking to shed light on matters of vital public concern is an outrage, and all journalists have the right under the First Amendment to report these stories."
Last summer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a crackdown on the leaking of classified information.
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