press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
that you just ran right? the new york times knocks on his door. i mean, i just, you know, i ve spent a lot of time around the intelligence community a lot of time around the fbi. i spent a lot. you know, i have a lot of respect for them. but the new york times beat the fbi to this person right? and the reason that serious is because what if he has suitcases full of documents, and he s in the process of sort of sending them out, mailing them out, faxing them out. what if he hands all those documents to the to the new york times? now we ve got sort of an interesting constitutional issue. and so you know, i m still as you can tell. not exactly a calm about that fact. and then, of course, is the fact that this is apparently allegedly 21 year old kid air national guardsman who was trying to impress his friends. this is not exactly beijing and russia s best cyber operators doing here and so clearly, there s an awful lot of work. a lot of lot of congressional oversight work we need to do to f