today at1:00. a 21 year old us airman will appear in court accused of leaking top secret military documents. jack teixeira is said to have posted the classified files in an online chatroom he was arrested at his home after what s been called one of the worst ever breaches of american intelligence. we ll be live in washington with the latest. also this lunchtime, the result will be announced today of a key vote by nurses in england on whether or not to accept the government s new pay offer. new evidence that shoppers are switching from fresh food to frozen to keep down their bills. the hidden danger of some gel nail polishes warnings of a rise in allergies caused by chemicals.
the actual designated recipient of any of these pieces of intelligence. he may have pulled him out of the burn bags or taking them off people s desks. and again, john. he allegedly shared that classified information in these documents on the online chatroom on discord with a small group of people where he also shared information about gaming and guns and racial memes again. his initial court appearance scheduled for later on this afternoon again, at that point, we ll find out about some of the charges. that he is facing if he is charged under the espionage act, and we re going to wait to see if that does, in fact happen. he could be facing many, many years behind bars. john alright jason carroll outside the joe moakley federal courthouse in boston. jason keep us posted could be a busy day there and katelyn polantz is already limiting who gets certain intelligence based on what s happened here. there s
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 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 from russia and ukraine. we did have a chance to ask the press secretary about it here in dublin at a rare briefing abroad. afghanistan report last week found that the intel was bad there and now some more reliable intel is leaking out. is president biden satisfied with the people who are handling american intelligence? what i will say is again d.o.j. is reviewing these documents. we cannot speak to the validity of these documents. but some at the white house are speaking to the validity of the classified materials. the fact that you have leaks of classified information that are out in the public domain and don t belong there. a big theme of these leaks is that the u.s. is spying on allies and yet we are told the