He FBI arrested this Thursday a 21 year old military in relation to the leak of classified Pentagon documentsthe largest leak of confidential material since the Wikileaks scandal in 2010, as confirmed by the United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland.
Is about Jack Teixeira21, a member of the intelligence department of the Air National Guard in the state of Massachusetts.
This is the first arrest linked to this case, whose revelations have been shaking US foreign policy for days.
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The arrest of the suspect, “in connection with an investigation into an alleged appropriation, retention and transmission of classified information on national defense“, occurred “without incident,” Garland said.
Investigators suspect that the detainee was the responsible for the chat in which the confidential documents were leakedindicated the website of the Spanish newspaper The country. The arrest came after security forces searched his home.
Images broadcast by the television network CNN they show vehicles of the United States security forces while they surrounded a house in the town of North Dighton, in that State; a person in a gray T-shirt and red shorts is shown handcuffed and surrounded by officers before being herded into a vehicle.
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The arrest of the young soldier now opens a debate about how Teixeira, belonging to the lowest military strata, was able to have access to highly classified information that only high command usually have access to.
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder admitted at a news conference that the Defense Department is reviewing information distribution lists and procedures for accessing classified documents.
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“We have to make sure that they only reach the people who need to have them,” he said. Ryder asserted that the leak constitutes “a deliberate criminal act.”
“There are rules. Each of us signs an agreement agreeing not to disclose information. This is a criminal act, a knowing violation” of the rules, the spokesman added.
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