learned. law enforcement is about to arrest a suspect tied to the leak of a trove of highly secret government intelligence, which is embarrassed the us and strained multiple alliances. today. several blockbuster reports expose who the suspected leader is. the new york times has named him as a 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard. cnn has not independently verified his identity, and it s not currently naming him both the times and the washington post said the man is the leader of a chat group on the online platform discord and his older than most members of the group of gamers who call him o. g. one of his friends who spoke anonymously on camera to the post obtained parental permission to do so. because that friend is underage. take a listen. he was. he was a young, charismatic man who loved nature . god who loved shooting guns and in racing cars. he did see himself as the leader of this group, and ultimately he was the leader of this group, and he wanted
of this unfolding. well i think everything kind of took a turn. once the f b. i realized that the media was about to identify to share a, which was just a few hours ago. certainly this morning, we knew that they had a very good idea of the of the suspect. they were doing some of the background work before they can execute a search of the home there. they do a lot of work to try to make sure they understand what they re getting into. they try to try to figure out who? maybe there. they want to make sure they get the obviously to get a judge s permission for all of this, so some of that was happening earlier and then and you know, all of their plans really accelerated once the media made public the name of the suspect, and that happened just just a couple of hours ago. of course, we knew that the fbi had made a lot of progress just over the last few days. you know , we knew that there were thousands of people who had access to some of these