that the government knew about the leaks and were desperatelyw trying to find out who wasg to fi remember, the new york timesnd beat them to . we learned all that and more after twenty one year old his irst appearance in court today. fox newn cours chief correspo jonathan is live in our westm coast newsroom with all the details. jonathan detail, good evening. it was a brief court appearance for the accused leaker today in federal court in boston, beginning a likely lengthy legal process and potentially a very long prison sentence. for twenty one year old jack tachira. if he is ultimately found guilty under the espionage act or very serious penalties associated with that. ou people who sign agreements to be able to receive classified documents acknowledge the importance to the national security of not disclosing those documents. and we intend to to send thatele message. toda released today showed that the gaming the fbi to tachira, who , despite his age and low leveld h ra
when we started spending a lot of money in afghanistan, whene we had the war in afghanistan, there were special inspectorl generafor thl for the whole afgf reconstruction because this wai. a significant amount of taxpayer dollars being spent here. enso when joe biden becameth president and certainly during the time of the debacle of a withdrawal, he quit communicatineg with the inspector general. and he continues to this day not to cooperate with them. now , an important part ofe ac oversight is to hold peoplee me accountable for wrongdoing. we hambd 13 servicemen who died in this debacle. i don t think their families are proud of the way that the bush administratio n handled this, the way that their spokesman just said . we want to get answers for the american people and we want to know who made decisions, who s to blame for the decisions that went wrong, and how can we hold these people accountable fore for th the disastrous withdrawal and the waste of billions of dollars of taxp