he shared the document on thug central. alexandria hoff has the latest. good morning. alexandria: classified national defense information at 21 years old, which is striking. he was part of the 102nd intelligence in cape cod. teixeira was placed into custody without incidents. the justice department arrested jack teixeira into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of national defense information. it is important to understand we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding sensitive information, this was a deliberate criminal act. alexandria: plans were accelerated as he was described as the leader of a gaming group on the platform discord, he shared information with fellow users and shared more widely. it was maps and positions of ukrainian troops and china s role in aiding russia. including intelligence on adversaries and allies and top secret american and nato planning. this sounded alarm bells for the pentagon as the source was being tr
todd: jonathan, have you ever heard of a 21-year-old having access to this kind of information? no, people don t realize higher your security clearance gets, the more specialized it becomes. you don t have access to more things, you have access to particular things that are vital. just because he has highest clearance you can get doesn t mean he has access to everything. it means he shouldn t have access, it appears this individual has access across the board to intelligence information coming in for multiple programs that he should not be anywhere close to, nothing to do with the national guard. ashley: to this part, the leaked documents reportedly showed china agreed to provide
they are not authorized to be discussing with the press. we have two senior individuals from the government discussing something somebody was just arrested for leaking and none of them are authorized to diz close this information. what is going on in the government, the people have to realize, whether it is fbi manufacturing information against donald trump or leaks continue to happen with people who don t have access or senior executives talking to the press about it, none of this is supposed to be happening and all of it is damaging to our national security and how our allies and our enemies see us. none of that is good for this nation and somebody who has worked in government for so many years, it s shocking to me that these things continue to happen and are happening from the lowest to the highest levels of government. todd: i just came up with a
accelerated as he was described as the leader of a gaming group on the platform discord, he shared information with fellow users and shared more widely. it was maps and positions of ukrainian troops and china s role in aiding russia. including intelligence on adversaries and allies and top secret american and nato planning. this sounded alarm bells for the pentagon as the source was being tracked down. president biden said he was less concerned. are you concerned about the leak? i m not concerned about the leak. i m concerned it upon ha, but there is nothing contemporaneous of great conseque alexandria: mike turner says it jeopardized our relationship
he shared the document on thug central. alexandria hoff has the latest. good morning. alexandria: classified national defense information at 21 years old, which is striking. he was part of the 102nd intelligence in cape cod. teixeira was placed into custody without incidents. the justice department arrested jack teixeira into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of national defense information. it is important to understand we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding sensitive information, this was a deliberate criminal act. alexandria: plans were