An FBI agent has been charged with leaking information to @theintercept. This article by @mukhtaryare does a good job illustrating how the agency runs leak investigations. A short thread. (1/6) mprnews.org/story/2018/03/…
The search warrant filed in Minneapolis federal court against Albury did not identify The Intercept, but the documents described in the warrant match the documents posted by The Intercept in January 2017. (2/6) theintercept.com/series/the-fbi…
The Intercept filed two FOIAs with the agency in late March 2016. The requests contained specific information about the documents that were not available to the public. The FBI determined that The Intercept "obtained these documents from someone with direct access to them." (3/6)
Reviews of the FBI internal records indicate the agent accessed over two thirds of ~27 secret documents published by The Intercept between April 2016 and February 2017. The FBI believes The Intercept had the documents prior to making the FOIA requests. (4/6)
Records indicate 16 had accessed one document from a classified network between August 2011 and March 29, 2016, the date of The Intercept's FOIA regarding the document. The warrant said Albury took 11 screenshots of the document ~one month before The Intercept's FOIA. (5/6).
In the summer of 2017, video surveillance captured Albury at his office, holding a digital camera and taking photos of his computer screen which contained documents classified as secret. (6/6)
