viewer listening to brigadier general pat ryder saying the department ofjustice is investigating this. there is an ongoing investigation and we are going to need that investigation to run its course. and we are assessing everything, including strict protocols that we need to put in place with up a lot of questions about how a 21 year old could potentially access classified documents. let s bring in ryan hillsboro, ex cia operations officer and expert on insider threats. thank you very much forjoining us on the programme. we are listening to the brigadier general pat ryder talking about the investigation. i suppose it does beg the question, if this is true and reuters news agency is actually reporting that he has come of this potential leaker has been arrested. the question is, how did a 21 year old acts are such class classified information?
hypotheticals. as always in every case isjudged on its own merits. we need to allow this investigation to run its course. of course they will be more to say on that. on your first question, it s important to understand that this is notjust about dod, this is about the us government, about how we protect and safeguard classified information. as i highlighted, we do have strict protocol in place for them anytime there is an incident, any time there s an opportunity to review that every find it we are of course going to take advantage of defence as you ve heard her say, secretary austin has been convening meetings with senior leaders to include chairman to talk about her viewing the scope and the impact of this and also to look at mitigation measures and what we need to do across the department of defence to ensure that we are doing our utmost to reinforce
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it s important that instead we will continue to ensure that people have a need to know when it comes to this year due to my information have access to that. we are always going to learn from every situation. again, this is something that we will continue to look out for that you are taking steps to tighten that population who might have access to this level of information? that s accurate. we continue to review the lesson update them and make sure there is a need to know. let me emphasise my that this was a. we have rules in place, each of us signed a nondisclosure agreement, anybody that has a security clearance and all indications are again, this was a criminal act, a willful violation. another reason why we are continuing to investigate and support the department of justice is investigation. [30 and support the department of justice is investigation.- justice is investigation. do you have a sense justice is investigation. do you have a sense that justice is investigation. do you
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