press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
happens next. good morning, quite a day here. bill hemmer, good day to you. dana: good morning, i m a dana perino and this is america s newsroom. this story is mind blowing, frustrating and i don t know if the president s reaction maybe he is masking how he really feels about it. americans will be outraged when they learn about this. the man responsible for blowing the lid off america s military secrets is apparent will i a low-level government employee. this according to a bombshell report from the washington post. it claims his motivation for sharing the documents was not political but to impress young friends. bill: said to be in his early 20s, worked on a military base. shared the documents in a private chat group in a video game site called discord. dana: teenage member spoke to the washington post. the leaker went by the name o.g. he said he was like a father figure to the group of mostly young gamers and he shared the documents to keep them in the loop on
from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there. a chatroom that counts as members some foreign nationals
reporters questions. wonder what the leaders of the other countries are saying. all of those files originally appeared in a small chat app group called discord. only about 20 members total. then because they sat there for weeks and weeks, we still don t get a firm idea from the federal government exactly how long this was out there. it spread much wider. one of the members of the teenage group got his parents permission to talk to the media reporter and said the group, the leaker was in his 20s and worked on a military base. he spoke with washington post on condition of anonymity. this channel there were classified documents being posted by a user called o.g. he was the leader of this group and he wanted us all to be sort of super soldiers to some degree, informed, fit, with god, well armed, stuff like that. it would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only 1 or 2 people were paying attention to these documents he was pouring his heart out into. harr
behind the security breach. the washington post reports the man is a low-level government employee. he worked in a military base and share the documents in a private chat group at videogame sites. biden insisted he is not concerned about the leaks u.s. military and intelligence documents. they are getting close to tracking down the leaker. could you give an update on the leak investigation for the leaked documents? i cannot right now. there is a fluegel full-blown investigation going on right now in the justice department. they are getting close. i don t have an answer. how concerned are you about the leak? are you concerned about the relationship? we ve got to move. i m not concerned. i am concerned that it happens, but there is nothing contemporaneous that i am aware of. while the president appears to be brushing off the leak, it has undermined ukraine s defense against russia. it has damaged relations with allies and exposed intelligent resources and further er