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
giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to be | that was inevitable. i want to be clear about this. principal decision makers in government, prime minister, the then secretary of state for health, duchy of lancaster, for example, nor in my view did that apply to the majority of political leaders, but there were some who chose their sites they wanted to hear, put it that way, and there were optical commentators whose view of the site started with what was my political position and then derive from that. in terms of decision makers in the decisions taken during covid in the uk, my view is, they were not intending to cherry pick, they may have done so by accident, it was not by design. you obviously spent a great deal of time in you obviously spent a great deal of time
lay out what we did wrong and what we could do. for that to happen though, it should have some kind of media that cares about this so it doesn t happen again. again, what he said was true, if it was trump, you would have the assessments and assessments and hearing after hearing after hearing. in this case, when their something that happens bad under a democratic president is one and done. there are so many consequences to what has happened here and the biden administration went out of their way to sell this as a success. they tried to make it a good pr move to say it was not just a success but the most successful airlift in american history while we all watched what was unfolding in these 13 servicemembers were killed. now we see from the parents and the testimony that they took the sim cards away. when he said that from my perch it wasn t chaotic. i guarantee you some cards of the phone of the people that died showed a very different story than what he said in the
and working towardsyo citizenship. you bet. wow.u bet. he also said it wasn t chaotic. we all saw the images. joining me now is someone doesn who definitely doesn t agree to that and wants to do something about it. hous t , e oversight committee chairman james comber, congressman, you are holding a hearing on this with inspector generals starting on wednesday. wan and what you said was, you want the american people to have answers they deserve, then they certainly do. and john sopkojohn, th, the speg for afghanistan reconstruction, he notified you that the biden administration was interfering in his investigation, which , we has a right to conduct.n how is the biden administration interfering? well, that s what we re going to find out. i mean, the environmenn admit ic cooperating with the special inspector generatol. these inspector generals aren ma put into place innn a bipartisan manner to oversee spending and varioufferent s different tf oversight from within this particular cabin
you bet. he also says it wasn t chaotic. joining me now is someone who definitely doesn t agree with that, house oversight chairman james culmer. you are holding a hearing on this with inspectors general starting on wednesday. what you said is you want american people to have answers they deserve them. and john, the special ig for afghanistan reconstruction, he notified you that the biden administration was interfering in his investigation, which he has a right to conduct? how has the biden administration interfered? that what we re going to find out. the biden administration is not cooperating with the special inspector general. on these inspector generals are put into place in a bipartisan manner to oversee spending and various different types of oversight from within this particular cabinet or agency. when we started spending a lot of money in afghanistan, when be