Hayes Brown: Marjorie Taylor Greene defending the 21-year-old Pentagon docs leaker isn't entirely surprising. But the way we classify our sensitive materials is.
The result is that the government classifies, which then necessitates that there needs to be people who can handle all of that unnecessary classification. Enter the Teixeiras of the world. According to a report to Congress by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, as of October 2019 there werewho had access to information classified as “top secret.
In 2021, Teixeira was granted one of those “top secret” clearances, which requires an extensive background check. But his behavior online doesn’t exactly give credence to the system that approved him.
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