paycheck problems would take. schedule a demo at com dot com and make the unnecessary unnecessary. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn newsroom america hill. we begin this hour with a trove of new information about the young suspect accused of leaking high level classified information from the pentagon information officials say endangered national security 21 year old jack to share with charged on two counts two federal counts at his first court appearance this morning. he did not enter a plea but will remain in custody until his detention hearing next week to share a who was arrested yesterday at his parents home was an it specialist for a military intelligence unit on cape cod, massachusetts, according to the affidavit to share also held top secret clearance since 2021 starting in december, he posted hundreds of highly classified intel documents to a chat group frequented by video gamers, which later spread on social media. cnn s jason carroll is live outs
terms of our security. we do know that it jeopardizes our sources of information. these are people that put their lives on the line in order to gather this intelligence there now vulnerable. we know it damages our relations with our allies and with our friends. all right, and we know that it damages our credibility and our reputation. ah the extent of the damage and each of those areas still remains to be determined. but this is serious and it needs to be fully investigated. secretary your time at the doggie and the cia. were you aware of anyone else of this rather low ranking e three ranking that we heard from natasha 21 year old who had just been enlisted and assigned to this position to be allowed access to such classified sensitive material. i you know, i in my experience, uh, i ve not
dealing with top secret information, not just one, and lastly, i think on the clearance process we can t just sit back and get complacent about clearances that are provided. there should be a system to upgrade those clearances and renew those clearances so that we find out whether individuals are still trustworthy or not. in terms of systems and recognizing things may have changed, obviously, since your time there , but what about a system of oversight? so even if he did have access to see them, as natasha said, nah, necessarily shouldn t have been printing them out. but to see them should there also be a regular system of checks and balances were perhaps a manager. is looking and following the activity that goes on because we all log in right, it s easy to trace what somebody is doing. in theory. it s easy to trace it at cnn. i m sure it is, you know, within the air national guard so that there is that oversight in that system of checks and balances doesn t exist at all. well, any tim