with classified information. yet, nothing was done. what have they done with his unit? they have taken the supervisors out. have they moved that function to another part of the pentagon? they suspended the intelligence function of the entire unit. they are out of the intelligence business, which is a pretty draconian thing to do. but it looks warranted. ken dilanian, all over it. we will have more on nbc nightly news. thank you so much. by the hour, as the debt ceiling talks drag on and new bipartisan bills in the house that would cancel all pay for members of congress if the nation does default. we will get the latest on the republican side of the negotiations with congressman ken buck coming up next, right here on andrea mitchell reports. stay with us on msnbc. n andreal reports. stay with us on msnbc. to sleep, so when our windshield cracked, we needed it fixed right. we went to safelite.com. there s no one else we d trust. their experts replaced our windshield,
commanders where jack teixeira allegedly stole that classified material he leaked. what it shows is on at least three occasions, teixeira was observed doing something suspicious with classified information so troubling that it was documented in writing, but his bosses not only let him continue to work with classified materials, they took no steps to investigate what he might be doing outside of work and what he was doing, as we now know, was leaking secrets and also expressing racist and extremist sentiments online. so specifically there was this september memo in the court filing that says he was seen taking notes on classified information and putting at least one note in his pocket. and then a month later, he was ordered to, quote, cease and desist on any deep dives into classified information. in february of this year, he was again seen accessing secrets not relating to his job, but again, he preserved his access. the military has taken action in the wake of this case by suspending
what these new revelations show is that on at least three occasions teixeira was observed doing something suspicious with classified information. so troubling that it was documented in writing, but his bosses not only let him continue to work with classified material, they took no steps to investigate what he might be doing outside of work. and what he was doing, as we now know, was leaking secrets and expressing racist and extremist sentiments. so specifically september memo says he was seen taking notes on classified information, and then putting a note in his pocket. that was flagged. a month later ordered to, quote, cease and desist on any deep dives into classified information unrelated to his job. apparently he didn t heed that advise because in february of this year, another memo says he was seen accessing secrets not relating to his job. so all this raises questions about what the heck was happening at that base, two commanders have been suspended. and the base has been strippe
to make sure everything is accounted for and everything is where it s supposed to be. neil: who do you give that power to, chris? the national archives always seems surprised when any of this happens. they re the last to find out. they re the repository of a lot of this stuff. one would think they re in the position to have that. maybe not. who handles this? it s an intelligence function. it goes it s lashed up with the counter intelligence in the intelligence missions of various agencies. so they re the ones that are responsible for tracking and accounting and auditing these documents. i mean, it ought to be a crime to possession sci information in an improper location. you know, it s sort of like contraband. you can t possess it. if it s out of its jacket, it s a strict liability position. you can t have it if you re
legal analyst elie hoenig. as we just heard from some officials .shooting is investigated as a hate crime. you heard from the fbi official. he didn t just stop there. he said hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism. if you would explain the significance of that. pam, first of all, we could see federal crimes in addition to the state crimes which have already been announced in order for there to be a federal crime they need to charge this as a hate crime. need to show that the motivation behind this murderous spree was racial hatred, racial azmous. the racial extremism. i think that s something the fisher is tracking as part of its intelligence function. much of what the fisher does is they investigate crimes, help federal prosecutors charge crimes. that s where we see the hate crime. another major function of the fbi is to gather intelligence on