I Helped Destroy People

Synopsis

Terry Albury, an F.B.I. agent, is tasked with infiltrating Muslim communities post 9/11 as the only Black agent at his bureau. However, he grows so disillusioned by the war on terror and what he sees as the agency’s violations of its rules on domestic terrorism that, after sixteen years and commendations signed by directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, he begins leaking classified documents to the press, hoping to expose a system that abuses innocents. Based on Janet Reitman's 2021 article for the New York Times.