{"id":1982,"date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/pentagon-document-leak-has-immediate-impact-national-security-sucks-oxygen\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"pentagon-document-leak-has-immediate-impact-national-security-sucks-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/pentagon-document-leak-has-immediate-impact-national-security-sucks-oxygen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon document leak has immediate impact on national security: sucks up 'a lot of oxygen'"},"content":{"rendered":"
The leaked Pentagon documents<\/a> will have a compounding effect of distracting officials from other, urgent topics of national security and will weaken allies\u2019 trust in the country’s ability to safeguard intelligence and operatives, experts told Fox News Digital. <\/p>\n “For the diplomats, this is going to take up a lot of oxygen that would otherwise be devoted to high priorities in our bilateral relations with many of the countries that are mentioned in these documents like South Korea, Turkey, Egypt, Israel,” former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital. “We’re going to be talking about this stuff.”<\/p>\n FBI agents arrested<\/a> Massachusetts Air National Guardsmen Jack Douglas Teixeira at a home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday in relation to a trove of classified documents that have been leaked online in recent months.<\/p>\n Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Teixeira, 21, is being investigated for the “alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information.”<\/p>\n 21-YEAR-OLD JACK TEIXEIRA ARRESTED FOR PENTAGON LEAK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Aerial photo of the arrest of Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira by FBI agents for allegedly leaking classified materials.<\/span> (Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n James Anderson, former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, said that he fully expected “many, many decades in a federal prison” following a conviction, but that in the immediate aftermath, the U.S. needs to ensure that it restores ally confidence.<\/p>\n “It’s important in the aftermath of this that there be a very thorough internal investigation as to what happened, and a congressional inquiry,” Anderson said. “That’s what will be necessary to help convince allies and partners that we’re doing everything in our power to try to prevent similar episodes from recurring in the future.”<\/p>\n “If we fail to convince them of our seriousness on this point, then they will be less likely to want to share sensitive intelligence<\/a> with the United States government, and that would be most unfortunate,” he added.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n