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

By Felicia Schwartz
Financial Times·
7 mins to read

Thousands of miles from the grim realities of the war that he would upend, the 21-year-old US Air Guardsman accused of leaking hundreds of classified documents was part of a sprawling intelligence network collecting and preparing sensitive information for senior military leaders and other national security officials.

Jack Teixeira held one of the military’s lowest enlisted ranks as what was essentially an IT worker in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Even so, he received a top-secret clearance to maintain and

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