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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger and Manisha Ganguly

Too many with access, too little vetting. Pentagon leaks were ‘a matter of time’

FBI agents arrest airman Jack Teixeira outside a residence in  North Dighton, Massachusetts.
FBI agents arrest airman Jack Teixeira outside a residence in this image taken from video in North Dighton, Massachusetts, U.S., Photograph: WCVB-TV/Reuters

Jack Teixeira, 21 years old, clean-shaven, with buzz-cut hair and proudly uniformed, is the face of America’s newest security threat, one it is struggling to resolve.

The formidable US counter-intelligence infrastructure is adept at finding spies and rooting out whistleblowers. Teixeira, charged on Friday on two counts of the Espionage Act, is neither spy nor whistleblower.

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