US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that Air National Guard employee Jack Teixeira was arrested in connection with online leaks of classified documents
The documents were posted online on a social media site in March, and perhaps earlier, but did not spread widely until last week.
The Justice Department opened a formal criminal probe last week, after a referral from the Department of Defense. The leak was a "deliberate, criminal act," the Pentagon said on Thursday, adding that the military had taken steps to review distribution lists and ensure people receiving information had a need to know.
"I'm concerned that it happened, but there is nothing contemporaneous that I'm aware of," Biden told reporters. U.S. officials believe most of the materials are genuine. Some, however, appear to have been altered to show inflated estimates for Ukrainian battlefield casualties in the war with Russia as well as understated numbers for Russian forces.
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