President Biden praised law enforcement for the arrest of 21-year-old National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira, the accused leaker behind a massive release of highly classified documents in an online gamer chat room.
, an information technology specialist, was assigned to the Guard’s intelligence wing at the time of the leaks. He is facing federal charges of unauthorized removal of classified national defense information.had access to the highly classified intelligence containing U.S. assessments of Ukrainian military operations, internal political conversations with U.S.
Mr. Biden, who is on a four-day visit to Ireland, downplayed the impact of the leaks on Thursday, saying that the information released was unlikely to pose grave damage to U.S. operations. “I’m not concerned about the leak,” Mr. Biden told reporters. “I’m concerned that it happened. But there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that’s of great consequence.”
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Thursday that the military is reviewing its protocols governing access to sensitive information, but he stressed that the allegations against Mr.“It is important to understand that we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information,” Gen. Ryder said. “This was a deliberate criminal act, a violation of those guidelines.
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