Terry J. Albury is an American former FBI agent convicted of leaking documents to news site The Intercept detailing secret guidelines for the FBI’s use of informants and the surveillance of journalists and religious and ethnic minority and immigrant communities.
The documents formed the basis for a series of articles in The Intercept called "The FBI's Secret Rules".
[4] He stated that he was motivated to inform the public about the systematic racist and xenophobic practices he witnessed as the only black agent in the Minneapolis field office, and the son of an Ethiopian refugee as he was tasked with surveillance of Muslim and immigrant communities.
[4] After leaking documents to The Intercept which formed the basis for a series called "The FBI's Secret Rules", Albury was indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917.
[5] Albury's was the second leak case charged under the Espionage Act under President Donald Trump.