5/9/2023 0 Comments The bad beginning rare editionToday, the Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira. The FBI arrests a suspect, and they don’t tell us much. dave phillipsĪt first we found very little. And ever since, you have been trying to understand this suspect’s back story and how he ends up getting these documents in the first place. The latest leak of US military secrets, this time by a member of the National Guard, has once again raised a familiar question, why do so many low level government workers have access to so many classified documents? The reason according to my colleague, Dave Philipps, is that such access was supposed to solve a problem, not create one.ĭave, one week ago exactly, there is an arrest, in this case, of this major leak of dozens of pages of secret military documents that have now been splashed across the front pages of papers around the world and has become a major embarrassment for the US. michael barbaroįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript Why Low-Ranking Soldiers Have Access to Top Secret Documents The arrest of a junior airman in the leaking of classified intelligence opened a debate about the volume of people with security clearances.
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