BREAKING: Federal authorities have taken a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard into custody on Thursday in connection with the investigation into highly classified U.S. intelligence that has recently been leaked online.
The Washington Post reported
that the person who leaked the documents is “a young, charismatic gun enthusiast” and that he shared the records with a group of acquaintances on the messaging platform Discord. A member of the group told the newspaper that the person, who went by the moniker OG, first shared typed-out transcriptions of what he said were classified intelligence records that he had brought home from his job on a military base..
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Thursday that authorities are reviewing their procedures in the wake of the leak. He called the incident a “deliberate criminal act” meant to circumvent guidelines and rules put in place to keep sensitive information restricted on a need-to-know basis.
“This was a deliberate criminal act to violate those guidelines and rules in the same way that if you locked your front door and somebody came into your house and took something, you followed your procedures and you locked your door, but somebody went in your house and took something and put it out on the street,” he said.
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