Terry J. Albury

And then again, the train of espionage act cases didn't stop.

They continued with Terry Albury and Daniel Hale and John Brennan, not that I would call him a whistleblower, but, and then Courtney Williams.

I mean, it has been so normalized unfortunately, that it's not a one-off the way your case was in the early days and the way Tom Drake's case was.

This is now a routine thing in the arsenal of the national security establishment that it can use to go after people who, heaven forbid, embarrass the United States.

I will not send whistleblowers to outlets or to journalists who have burned a source, especially when you're a, an, a media outlet like The Intercept that claims to be all about source protection, and source protection is your raison d'être as a paper.

And you've had three different whistleblowers.

You've had Terry Albury, and you, John, and Reality Winner.

Three different people go to federal prison because of your sloppiness.

Sentenced to 20 years, he was released in 2024.

Terry Albury joined the FBI as a counterterrorism expert in Minneapolis in 2001.

He told Reitman that his training included viewing 9-11 footage over and over.

The planes hitting the towers, the smoke pouring out of the buildings, the people jumping to their deaths, the buildings collapsing into a toxic cloud.

... because of a level of threats being directed at him.

Another fascinating character, a person n-named Terry Albury, who is an African American man, um, who joins the FBI super gung ho, um, and really believes in the mission and, and then, so explain what happens to him.

So Terry begins very idealistically as a person who is, he's a, he's an African American guy who is, r-really believes when he joins the FBI two things.

One, that the FBI, and this is legitimate, the FBI was incredible in the nineties in particular at finding missing and exploited children, and this is one of his, the things he really wanted to do was help children.