ABC News(WASHINGTON) Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said people need to be held accountable following a stunning leak of classified documents that did "a lot of damage."
"I don t know what led to this airman s actions, but he s done a lot of damage in our standing. It s very hard to get people to come forward right now to tell us about things we need to know about if they feel like they re going to be compromised," Graham, a former Air National guardsman, told This Week co-host Jonathan Karl.
"The question is how they did it, and why did they do it? And some people need to be fired over this."
Last week, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard, was charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents, which collectively carry a maximum of 15 years in prison.
The documents Teixeira allegedly leaked first appeared on the platform Disco