told the f.b.i. had been watching him for days but then the f.b.i. was forced into action when the media published his name. he is 21 years old. joined the national guard in 2019. he held the highest level security clearance granted by the u.s. government and he now faces charges under the espionage act. dana: new york post headlines geeky leaks. why the military entrusted this information to a 21-year-old guardsman? the pentagon defending its protocol. it was a deliberate criminal act. violation of the guidelines. you receive training and you will receive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities and you are expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibility called military discipline. bill: reaction, john ratcliffe. peter doocy and we begin in boston with alexis mcadams. good morning from boston. we expect the suspected libellinger in court for the first time in a federal courthouse in boston and hea
with the leaked us intelligence documents, and a new report about who the source of those lea ks may be. the files, you might remember, first appeared in a chatroom on the online platform, discord. the washington post says it s spoken to at least two members of that chatroom, one who says they re friends with the alleged leaker. here s the headline: leaker of us secret documents worked on military base, friend says . the article talks about the alleged leaker s motivation, throughout, he s referred to as 06. for all og s disdain for the federal government, the member said there was no indication that he was acting in what he thought was the public interest by exposing official secrets. with me now is shane harris, national security reporter from the washington post, one of the journalists who worked on the investigation. thank you very much forjoining us. what more can you tell us about this alleged liquor? us. what more can you tell us about this alleged liquor? we about t
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
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
reportedly abandons his struggling pick for governor. just left him in the dust. never would have seen that coming. i know. no loyalty. things go back, and he throws him under the bus. who has ever seen that? that s shocking. other than anyone he s ever dealt with. the latest on the war in ukraine. british intelligence reports russia has been firing high-level commanders over the military s poor performance in ukraine. we ll talk a lot more about that. along with joe, willie, and me on this friday morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. he is white house bureau chief at politico. willie, we re going to get a lot of news here, but i must say, jonathan and i just shocked. a storied night in major league baseball last night, as the little engine that could just went a half notch up the hill and said, i think i can. jonathan, give us a qu