Kevin Gosztolaتصدیق شدہ اکاؤنٹ

To extent there is any coverage, most US press cover leak prosecutions without bothering to show how vindictive they are. They're designed to make example out of every low-level person who publicly shares documentary proof to challenge U.S. national security policy.

Terry Albury is whistleblower because he believed we should debate FBI policies for informant recruitment, etc. Know what agents are tasked to do when infiltrate minority communities, see the effect on minorities and agents, and reflect on whether this is acceptable

Government insists Albury's disclosures (which were published by Intercept) didn't expose "abuse." To some extent, government can argue that. As with numerous abusive post-9/11 policies, they were made to conform with law and law was made to conform with policies.

No one in FBI was all that sympathetic to Albury's moral conflict with what he was assigned to do in minority communities. So, he did not waste his time going through proper channels. He disclosed documents that exposed aspects of work that caused him great distress

Albury was "deeply conflicted by his involvement in raids and interrogations that he increasingly saw as unjustified and ineffective." His FBI colleagues were racist, using slurs and making crude jokes directed at him and minorities—especially Somalis

It only got worse for Albury when he became part of an FBI terrorism squad in Minnesota that was conducting surveillance, recruiting informants, and breeding distrust in Somali communities to supposedly help US fight al-Shabab.

When Albury was questioning detainee at prison camp in Iraq, that detainee wouldn't talk. He expressed frustration to a military officer. Days later, the detainee was more talkative. Albury believed his complaint led to the detainee being tortured.

Albury was deployed to Iraq in 2009. There he became haunted and even more disillusioned as he was exposed to how the U.S. was torturing terrorism detainees.

The moral injury started for Terry Albury, one of the very few black agents in FBI, in San Jose, as he recognized the surveillance of civilians was "invasive and harassing." And FBI agents constantly displayed bigotry toward Hispanics or black Americans.

Albury witnessed the post-9/11 systematizing of counterinsurgency by FBI and its intrusion into minority communities. "Highly unethical." That's how he viewed the FBI's frequent use of unreliable informants to manufacture terrorism cases.

After 9/11, Terry Albury was on terrorism squad in San Jose, California. He felt pressure to increase # of investigations and informants. Believed too many cases were opened on thin or non-existent evidence. Complained but supervisors insisted he should not be concerned

Albury's attorneys put together sentencing memo that argued for probation. It contained several biographical details: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5008018/Terry-Albury-Defense-Sentencing-Memo.pdf …

Justice Department loathes when defense attorneys, press, or public refer to lower-level government personnel who leak as whistleblowers. But there is plenty of evidence that Terry Albury committed an act of conscience.