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Information we have learned, look, this unit, this intelligence unit out of cape cod of all places is a legitimate unit, and he had this individual had a role as an i.t. tech where he did have access to classified information, so to me, it goes now to the sense of the background investigation this is where the failure, like, how did he get hired and of course his ongoing access to information, and i think that s where you re going to see a lot of calls in congress in terms of how do we monitor personnel who have really kind of some secrets to the or the keys to the kingdom. i m not as interested in this kind of idea of over classification or the number of people this individual needed to have access to this information this was a real unit the question is how was he hired, and why was he still working there? so you think he,s s the stufs that s posted and various papers have reported different things, things had had access to, as ....
Thank you very much for that. we also have new cnn reporting this morning. the pentagon is now limiting who gets access to highly classified daily intelligence briefs. some u. s officials are being cut out from an email list despite having the proper clearance following that major leak of classified documents on was just talking about natasha bear turned joins us now their head well, this is separate from the issue of over classification, which we heard bill byrne talking about this week, but you know, it s interesting what the pentagon is doing to try to put a lid on this because we don t know if the leaks over exactly right, poppy. so, as we ve reported, the pentagon has been doing this internal investigation to try to figure out how to stem the flow of future leaks, and what they have done is they have started to comb through the distribution lists of these highly classified documents that are distributed across the entire government daily and they have begun to whittle down those l ....
Those individuals, i think that what we re going to find what this individual is that there are some really interesting similarities here. you know, both of those previous who individuals snowden manning. they were sort of disillusioned with some aspect of our government or the state of affairs in in this country what we were doing. and so you know that when we think about why, what s the what s the reason behind this is that this is very similar to those sorts of things with regard to what we do here. you know, we talk a lot about this issue of over classification and who has access to these documents. but as a general said, you know, we have to balance that with our needs to communicate and our need to share information so that we can give our leaders that decision advantage they need right now. what i see is i think that balances maybe a little off. be we do need fewer people who have access to these classified documents. i would. maybe we need better systems in place to tag the dat ....
Other things that we need to do better. of course, i think there s a serious problem of over classification, sometimes in the u. s government as well, which is something that i think needs to be taken on document included recent intelligence on the war in ukraine very recent, and us spying efforts on allies and enemies. let s talk about this and a lot more with chairman of the house intelligence committee. ah republican congressman mike turner. he received a briefing, of course on the leaked documents yesterday. congressman chairman thank you very much for your time this morning. good morning. the fact that we just protect terry austin say there are other documents out there. they don t know if there are there may be really echoes. what? we heard john kirby at the white house. say right? we don t know if this is over. what is your level of concern? well, obviously that there s great concern as to anyone who might have access to classified documents who would commit an act of espionage, ....
Ukraine s plans in fighting this ongoing war? i m glad you raised that point because that really is kind of misleading. i was just as you said in ukraine, and i met with both our service members and officials from nato . there s actually a great deal of optimism in order to be able to support ukraine in order to be able to support outcomes and strategy. you have to first decide and review critically. what are your weaknesses? you have an ability to impact the outcome of those weaknesses. so i think anybody who looks at these who thinks that you know this means that this these outcomes will will be negative, just drawing the wrong conclusions. these are are working documents for us, but the impact i will see general milley said a few weeks ago that the belief is not that ukraine can win the war. this year. i know you ve said, well, you don t think russia can either. i do want to ask you what you think of cia director bill byrne s saying there s a serious problem of over classification. ....