everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with new details in the case against a 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking top secret pentagon information jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search. for the source of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence. the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national correspondent national security rather correspondent alex marquardt joining us live from washington, alex. so what more are we learning about to share a and how he was able to print off these documents undetected? hi there, fredricka. well airman first class jack to share a 21 years old and you said he enlisted in the air national guard back in 2019 around four years ago. and then it was
visiting all of these different if you will links that exist within our intelligence classified network, watching the raising some red flags and supposedly, that was something that was fixed the last time that we ran into some of these issues, edward snowden. obviously the wikileaks was another example of contractors of part time staff that out. you know, poking their nose, perhaps where it shouldn t belong. so in other words he had in his profile. at least one of the sites. he was named jack the dripper, which right there, says drip, you know, revealing information, and that s interesting. that was in his kind of handle name, and you re saying that because of the kind of job he had, there should be someone or an entity that should be watching his behavior. so when he would go to sites like this um, there should have been someone to identify his identity . his name is profile and that it is he that is at this locations at this location or
system went back up after a massive hack that affected 4,000 employees. it was down for two weeks and just the latest. the hacking community is, for many reasons, often a secretive one. but the biggest players assembled at a conference in las vegas, out in the open. rare access to be amongst the hackers here. if you re a hacker, you have darkened shades, blackened shades, hiding in there, anonymous handle name. these guys are in sin city, having their convention. you think of them in basements rierkts? yeah. operating in the shadows. these are the people that scare us most. i haven t been able to use my phone since i got back. i m joking. many of these hackers aren t criminals. they go to these krchs to help with cyber security. think about that, too. to protect us we need these guys to crack the codes so they can beat their colleagues, other