The motive is still an open question. What we know about Jack to share is that he is 21, which isn't all that young in terms of individuals who enter the Massachusetts Air National Guard or the military in general. This is partly because if you think about what happened in the post-9-11 era, there was a real push to share information across the federal government so that nothing like 9-11 would ever happen again.
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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