[STARTRIBUNE] A former Minneapolis FBI agent caught leaking classified documents to The Intercept pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.
Justice Department prosecutors charged Terry James Albury with unlawfully disclosing and retaining national defense information last month.
Albury is accused of sharing a document on assessing confidential human sources ‐ otherwise referred to as informants ‐ and a document "relating to threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country" with a news hound for a national media organization.
The second count charged against Albury alleged that he failed to turn over a document "relating to the use of an online platform for recruitment by a specific terrorist group" last year. Albury pleaded guilty to both counts.
Not long after the charges were filed last month,
| ...our article on the subject is dated March 28th, though the misbehaviour apoarently took place between February 2016 and January 31, 2017... |
Albury’s attorneys issued a statement through which he accepted "full repsonsibility for the conduct set forth" in the felony information ‐ a federal charging document that typically signals an imminent guilty plea. Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said his actions "were driven by a conscientious commitment to long-term national security and addressing the well-documented systemic biases within the FBI." |