ever ingredients to help you lose fat get lean, absolutely free, rugged 321321. this is cnn. the world s news network. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. big developments in our top story today. the fbi has arrested 21 year old jack to sherry is a member of the massachusetts air national guard arrested in connection with that leak of classified pentagon intelligence documents, the u. s government sources familiar with this case tell cnn that this year was under surveillance by the fbi for the past few days. and that they had planned to arrest him at work today but ended up taking him into custody at his home after reporters from the new york times, knocked on the door to his house and apparently alerted him. that wasn t a good idea to go to work today, reports from the washington post, the new york times and belen cat show that to share allegedly led a small online chat group on the encrypted platform. discord
this 21 year old guardsman he joined in 2019. he s very new to this and he was a cyber transport. systems journeyman. he was essentially responsible for i t for this particular wing of the air national guard in massachusetts. so it is totally unclear at this point whether he had access to these documents himself, whether he took them how he printed them if he even printed them himself. just a lot of questions here that investigators are going to be looking at jake as they look into his background and motive. i don t think of the idea. the question is about being 21. i think it s a question of like he s obviously if his story is to be believed. incredibly immature. so why would somebody who s immature if that s preferential language to your friends at the pentagon. why would he get access to the classified documents? natasha bertrand at the pentagon for us, thank you so much. i want to bring in a maliki brown. he s a senior story producer on the new york times visual investigations team
brilliant investigator, was able for a combination of tenacity and smarts and exploring areas of the gray market in russia to essentially put together a treasure-trove of documentation that placed this group of men, this so-called toxins team, in the same locations as alexei navalny more than 30 times in the space of several years. just to give you an example of the sloppy trade craft, one of the would be asas ins turned on his cell phone near a hotel where navalny was staying the night he was poisoned. that ping was the moment where cristo and others involved in this investigation became very much aware of the fact that this was not some kind of a conspiracy. that actually this had really happened because as you heard in