US President Joe Biden is facing sharp criticism from Republicans following the latest secret service scandal and wants the case to be clarified as soon as possible. Biden said on Friday evening on the sidelines of his multi-day visit to Ireland that he had instructed his government to find out why the alleged traitor had access to such explosive information.
The opposition accused the President of mistakes in handling state secrets. The chairman of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, accused Biden’s government on Twitter of failing and not sufficiently securing secret information. Republican Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who politicizes on the party’s right-wing fringes, tweeted the question: “Who is entrusted with important information that affects the security of our nation and our own lives?”
The background are secret documents on the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine that have found their way onto the Internet. They have been circulating on the Internet for weeks and contain information on arms deliveries, assessments of what is happening in the war, but also details on alleged espionage actions by the USA once morest partners.
Biden told reporters in Ireland that the full extent of the incident should be fully investigated. He doesn’t think it will take long.
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At the center of the affair is a 21-year-old US Air Force National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira. He is accused of unauthorized removal, storage and transmission of classified information and national defense information, it was announced on Friday. Up to 15 years in prison. The suspect has now been brought before an investigating judge.
Teixeira is said to have initially published the documents in a closed chat on the Discord platform popular with video gamers. From there, they spread on the Internet until authorities and the media became aware of them.
