A 21-year-old young man has upset the American intelligence services. Air National Guard recruit Jack Teixeira was charged with “unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information” and “unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials,” according to a court document.
Apart from the international embarrassment caused by the leak of confidential documents, it seems that intelligence specialists did not see a new danger coming. Not only has the story made headlines in the US media for the past few days, but it is upsetting and worrying
US authorities who appeared to be overwhelmed by a case they tried to downplay.
But this is no small matter. The consequences of this leak of confidential documents with information on the war in Ukraine, on Russia, on Egypt on France are still difficult to measure.
Washington is trying somehow to plug the breaches. This story is also an incredible investigation of the New York Times a you Washington Post. All of this threatens to transform American intelligence services.
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