Pentagon leaks: Suspect named as national guardsman Jack Teixeira

The US Pentagon has been reacting to reports naming a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman

suspect

ed of being in charge of the Online Group that had hundreds of top-secret intelligence documents it says Reuters, the FBI has made an arrest and is continuing. police activity in North Dighton, Massachusetts, let us now return to Siobhan Kennedy in Washington Chevon, since you say that we are hearing reports that lately the leader

suspect

s the head of that online group who mentioned there that Jack take Sarah in fact now he's been arrested we've been listening to that Pentagon briefing they won't confirm if he's been arrested or not they won't even confirm his name because they say it's now a live criminal investigation under the auspices of the Department of Justice, but they were asked a lot of questions about the protocol, how it was possible that this type of leak could happen and they said that people really only need to know on the basis that they have access to this. type of highly classified material that they are made to sign non-disclosure agreements and therefore breaking those agreements and leaking the documents is a deliberate and therefore criminal intentional act.

Let's listen to that Pentagon spokesman. a non-disclosure agreement anyone who has a security clearance huh so all indications are again that this is a criminal act a deliberate violation of those huh and again another reason why we continue to investigate and support the investigation from the Department of Justice some more news the new york times meanwhile has been talking to

jack

tashara's mother at her home in massachusetts i think you can see some of those images on your screens now that she has confirmed to the new york times that his son is in fact, a member of the Air National Guard who had recently been working night shifts on Cape Cod and in the last few days had changed his phone number, we don't know if that's significant or not, that's it just what she said.

The New York Times has had such a big development on this scandal today that this man, this suspect responsible for these

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is a US citizen, a member of the National Guard who leaked these confidential documents about how the US is spying on its friends and potentially your enemies. very serious certainly certainly very shameful that for the U us that one of their own is responsible for this mess