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21-year-old Pentagon leaker exposed

Pod Save the World

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The Background Check and Vetting Process

"I am flabbergasted that a 21 year old Air National Guardsmen had this access, whether or not he was an IT guy. That's insane." "The background checks were designed in the kind of cold war, right? They're so antiquated," she says. 'It's like, are you gay? I'm sorry. That means I'm going to leak classified information' "'How many times do there need to be leaks?' they always act like this is the big leak that will cause them to fix things,'" CNN's John Berman asks.

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