The Immediate Consequences of Lockdown at the Pentagon

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Noelle King: What are the immediate consequences now? Is there some office in D.C. where everyone is on lockdown? Are people's passwords being changed and they're being kicked off of servers? And so should the American public assume that classified documents are just not that secure? Erin Banco: I think it's fair to assume that a lot of classified information is perhaps in the hands of individuals who could potentially leak it.

Federal officials have charged a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard with posting a trove of classified documents online. Politico’s Erin Banco explains.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Haleema Shah with help from Amina Al-Sadi. It was edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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