The FBI Used the #MeToo Moment to Pressure an Environmental Activist Into Becoming an Informant




Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition show

Summary: Julie Henry was jogging when she got the call from the FBI. She didn’t recognize the number, which had a Washington state area code, but she answered anyway. The FBI agent identified herself as Kera O’Reilly, and said that Henry wasn’t in any trouble. O’Reilly was there to help. The phone call, which Henry received on February 22, 2018, brought her back to an internal conflict that she thought she’d finished wrestling with two years earlier.