the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. and i m bianna golodryga. he was scared of getting caught transcribing classified documents at work. so what did he do? well, he took them home. that is just one of the stunning new details. we re learning about the suspect arrested in the flagrant pentagon leak investigation 21 year old jack to share a was charged with two federal crimes. today he did not enter a plea, but he will remain in custody until his detention hearing next week. to share a who was arrested yesterday at his parents home was an it specialist for a military intelligence unit on cape cod, massachusetts. today s affidavit providing somewhere insight into why this effectively low level air national guardsman had such high level access to the sensitive information is beyond a mentioned he worked in. i t actually held top secret clearance since 2021 starting in december, according to the affidavit, he was posting hundreds of highly classified intel documents to a chat group
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
intel documents to a chat group frequented by gamers. those documents later spread on social media. cnn s chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller, is with us as well as cnn national security correspondent natasha bertrand, who is joining us live from the pentagon. so john, let s talk a little bit more about these charges so to federal charges at this point, and what do they point to so these are your basic holding charges. this is unauthorized use of a government computer, you know, improper handling of classified documents , but as the investigation, which is literally today, only six days old, which is lightning speed in a in a classified leak investigation has to go further . which is okay. this is what we know. and we think that he was he had his friends. they were gamers. they shared this these documents in there. private discord space it was cool to have access to real secrets. what we don t have is an espionage charge. what we don t have is that he was working for
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 this alleged liquor? - understand that at the beginning of the pandemic he kind of became this leader of this far flung group of men and boys, a number of teenagers who were cut off from the world, were cut off from the world, were interested in gaming and he gathered them together in this discord space and what they understood what he worked on a military base and he had access to highly classified he started sharing this information as a way, they said, of trying to both educate these followers in his group, has online family about the world, world events and really it seems to try to impress them, to try to come across to them, to try to come across to them as someone who is deeply informed but also had information to secret and information to secret