FBI arrests 21-year-old Air Force guardsman in Pentagon leak case

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This article discusses a recent leaking of classified government documents by a 21 year old US Air National Guardsman. The article starts by stating that the leaker has been arrested and the details governing the arrest. The article then states the documents were leaked through a social media group, of which the leaker was the leader. The documents contained intelligence reports on US allies and adversaries, including information about the current Ukraine-Russia conflict. The article then goes on to discuss the leaker, and how although “people were wary of him,” “[people] didn’t think he would be capable of doing something like this.”

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Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak

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2023

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United States

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