FBI/LEAKS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s drive to crack down on government leaks scored its first guilty pleas on Tuesday [4-17-18] as a former FBI special agent admitted to leaking classified information to the media and to keeping classified information at his home without permission. Former FBI Agent Terry Albury, 39, appeared in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, to offer guilty pleas to two felony violations of the Espionage Act, a century-old law that covers both espionage and other offenses relating to mishandling of classified information. Charges filed last month as part of a plea bargain between federal prosecutors and Albury don’t name the news organization involved, but details in an affidavit used last year to obtain search warrants related to the case indicate that the online news outlet The Intercept was the recipient of Albury’s leaks.”
-Josh Gerstein, “Trump anti-leak drive nets first guilty pleas,” Politico. April 18, 2018 5:40 am