[THEHILL] The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed charges against an FBI agent for allegedly leaking secret documents to a news hound, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Wednesday. The DOJ alleges that Terry Albury, a Minneapolis-based agent, shared a document on FBI informants with an unnamed news hound for a national media organization. In addition, Albury allegedly leaked a document "relating to threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country."
The Star-Tribune reported that the charges don’t name the news hound or news outlet involved. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
Albury allegedly shared the information between February 2016 and Jan. 31, 2017.
| ...in other words, the last year of President Obama’s tenure. Why d’you suppose he chose that timing, dear Reader? |
An attorney for Albury and an FBI spokesperson did not respond to the Star-Tribune's requests for comment.
The Trump administration has taken a harsh stance toward leakers. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in August a governmentwide crackdown on leakers, which included a review of the DOJ's policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish sensitive information.
Sessions said at the time that the DOJ, FBI and government intelligence agencies would direct more resources into the investigations of government leaks and would prioritize prosecuting those who pass sensitive information along to the press or foreign officials.