Cora Currier and her colleagues at The Intercept publicly released the FBI's confidential rulebooks.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by The Intercept's own published series, Wikipedia's entry on Terry J. Albury, and independent corroboration from Columbia Journalism Review. Multiple reporters were involved, consistent with 'her colleagues' phrasing. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI's Secret Rules (seed:conspiracy_and_investigation)
- https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/hidden-loopholes-allow-fbi-agents-to-infiltrate-political-and-religious-groups/ (corroboration)
- https://theintercept.com/series/the-fbis-secret-rules/ (corroboration)
- https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/terry-albury.php (corroboration)