The intelligence unit where Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira worked has paused operations while the Air Force conducts an inspector general review into the unit's processes.
worked"is not currently doing its mission," according to a Pentagon official.
The pause at the 102nd Intelligence Wing comes as the Air Force is directing additional reviews into how Teixeira was able to allegedly leak potentially hundreds of pages containing classified information about the, as well as military secrets about other countries. "There is a full-court press going on about this. We're all disturbed about it, and we're working very, very hard to get to the bottom of it and take corrective actions," Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Congress on Tuesday.
Brown told Congress there are protections in place to protect classified information, but"obviously, in this case, this process fell apart."
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