catch the new episode of eva longoria searching for mexico tomorrow night at nine p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against the 21 year old air national guardsman he s accused of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source. of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us live from washington right now, alice , what more are you learning about how to share? and uh, you know, learning about him and then how he was able to print off these documents there, fredricka? well, the qu
that is a military outfit that prepares intelligence products. for senior military commanders around the world, and tahara is a and i t specialist. his technical title is a cyber defense operations journeyman, but he s a specialized i t person who works on these highly classified networks. that is simply why he had access to these documents. so now investigators are certainly going to be asking him what documents he accessed and put online. they can certainly go through his computer. we know that they have started doing that. they are going to be looking at printer logs to figure out whether he did, in fact, print off some of these documents. but this race is much bigger questions as well about this concept of need to know which really governs the intelligence community and who can access these kinds of documents. fredricka okay, and then cnn has viewed some 50 of the documents so far, what is most striking they really aren t quite extraordinary, especially for someone like me who cove
with me, helped me escape. he saved my life. the driver was able to flee several weeks later. both of them have arrived in the u.s. the issue today is that tahara s family, his wife and children, had remained in kabul. he was trying to bring them into the u.s. he s now a u.s. citizen and he applied in march to bring them here. that s his legal right as a u.s. citizen. and i spent all spring working with tahir to get american officials in the state department to approve their applications and there was an enormous backlog that emerged after president biden announced the withdrawal, so they have been trapped in kabul since the taliban took over. but the good news is, have they gotten everything approved? and by the way, i got so frustrated reading your article. i guess his youngest child got approval but not the rest. it was so piecemeal.