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When ‘Top Secret’ Is Not So Secret

Posted on AllSides April 14th, 2023
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Alex Gagne for The New York Times
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Why would a 21-year-old national guardsman be in a position with access to top secret documents to begin with?

The dramatic arrest on Thursday of Jack Teixeira, an airman in an intelligence unit in the Massachusetts Air National Guard who federal authorities believe is linked to a leak of reams of classified documents, lays bare the sheer volume of people who have clearance to view a swath of national security documents that the government categorizes as top secret.

From National Guard members on bases in Massachusetts to generals at NATO...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/politics/documents-leak-security-clearance.html

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