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Fri 08 Aug 2007BreachBreach depicts the hunt for a strange spy in the FBI, writes Michael DwyerWriter-director Billy Ray set himself a challenge from the outset of Breach by giving away the ending. Newsreel footage from February 2001 shows the US attorney-general, John Ashcroft, commenting about the arrest of FBI counter-intelligence agent Robert Hanssen on espionage charges. Cue a flashback to two months earlier.