The Air Force says it has begun its own investigation into how a young airman allegedly was able to access possibly hundreds of highly classified documents he's accused of posting on the internet.
An undated picture shows Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Air National Guard, who was arrested by the FBI, over his alleged involvement in leaks online of classified documents, posing for a selfie at an unidentified location.
"The 102nd Intelligence Wing is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission," said Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokesperson. "The mission has been temporarily reassigned to other organizations within the Air Force." Members of the congressional panel expressed disbelief that Teixeira allegedly had been able to leak information on to the Discord website for months without being detected.
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