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The Pentagon leak: how a low-ranked 21-year-old accessed top US secrets

8 mins | Apr 22, 2023
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As charges against Jack Teixeira spark a close examination of America's intelligence handling, it has been revealed that over one million people have access to top-secret U.S. documents and information. Felicia Schwartz examines how a junior employee smuggled out and released some of the nation's most sensitive secrets.

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