controls and sensitive information without adequate oversight. zatko also alleges some of the company s senior most executives tried to cover up twitter s vulnerabilities. cnn s donie o sullivan is here with the exclusive details. what are we seeing, what are the main headlines out of this disclosure? that s right, kaitlan, a lot to break down in this. this disclosure is in the hands of multiple u.s. law enforcement agencies, including the s.e.c. and the department of justice and today zatko is speaking out for the first time to cnn. have a look. ready? yes. why are you coming forward? all my life i ve been about finding places where i can go, and make a difference. reporter: this is peiter zatko. until january this year he was head of security at ftwitter, bt now a whistle-blower. he said the problems are so grave, they re a risk to national security and democracy. twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform.
no shortage of outrage, what are they saying? to garrett s point, this guy, this whistle-blower is legend. we were calling out a lot of cybersecurity experts saying, what do you think of this guy, is there anything we can where can we look at this guy, we might say he s oversaying things? and people say if he s saying there s something there, there s something there. so twitter is in this position now where their chief of security, who is hired by jack dorsey, is calling all of this out. twitter is saying he s mischaracterizing it, he doesn t have the full story, that he is making kind of definitive statements. i would out the evidence. it is an uphill battle for them, i think. it sounds like it is the beginning of a lot more to come. donie, terrific reporting. thank you for breaking it here on new day this morning. garrett graff, christine romans, thank you as well. just revealed in court documents, a message from former