that the government knew about the leaks and were desperatelyw trying to find out who wasg to fi remember, the new york timesnd beat them to . we learned all that and more after twenty one year old his irst appearance in court today. fox newn cours chief correspo jonathan is live in our westm coast newsroom with all the details. jonathan detail, good evening. it was a brief court appearance for the accused leaker today in federal court in boston, beginning a likely lengthy legal process and potentially a very long prison sentence. for twenty one year old jack tachira. if he is ultimately found guilty under the espionage act or very serious penalties associated with that. ou people who sign agreements to be able to receive classified documents acknowledge the importance to the national security of not disclosing those documents. and we intend to to send thatele message. toda released today showed that the gaming the fbi to tachira, who , despite his age and low leveld h ra
about a couple big issues here at home. first, pentagon pflueger who posted with the defense department because sensitive highly classified material in a chat room popular with video gamers. i was checking to make sure they get to the root of why he had axis in the first place number one and number two the focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred and that s going on right now. i have nothing to report beyond what s already reported. a new report in the washington post reviewing leaked secret documents detail the u.s. was aware of the 24 china spy balloons in addition to the one u.s. shot down in february. meantime not only was biden ready to talk about the leaker, he weighed in on planes for 2024 but again keeping it vague. we ve already made that calculus will announce it relatively soon. you made a decision? i told you my plan is to run again. short of an announcement we will get to that. first, we have so much to talk about particularly this lea
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and yet, more negative impacts in our society of covid s lockdown isolation. is this young man, allegedly escaped into a world online forming an alternate community that somehow evaded our top investigators for months. so how does that happen? congressman from the house intelligence community stands by with his thoughts. and she is having all the action happening this afternoon at the courthouse in boston, massachusetts, high alexis. mike hi, this is when the suspect was just in front the judge a short time ago. the question remains again this afternoon my thought of how does a 21-year-old with a high school diploma could have access to some of the country s top secrets into new topic at good chance to look at so that you look like he knew some federal authorities were looking into him. take a look at the new documents we got in our newsroom a short time ago. as of the newly released affidavit there saying that that air national guard had me using his clearance to search
but, breaking tonight, the suspect accused of leaking our nation s top secrets appearing in court for the first time today. 21-year-old national guard man for leaking and sharing classified information. we learn more about the investigation that led to his takedown as criticism mount to the methods of highly sensitive secrets to thousands of people including a 21-year-old air national guardman from texas. they are tightening the entire process. reaction. we begin alexis mcadams outside the court house. that appearance happened today in boston. good evening, alexis. very active day at the federal courthouse behind me as investigators try to figure out how a 21-year-old with a high school diploma had access to some of the country s biggest secrets. this all comes as new documents we just got a look at today show that jack teixeira might have known that the feds were on to him so much so he was trying to search in his data base. tonight 21-year-old jack teixeira remains in