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Learned. law enforcement is about to arrest a suspect tied to the leak of a trove of highly secret government intelligence, which is embarrassed the us and strained multiple alliances. today. several blockbuster reports expose who the suspected leader is. the new york times has named him as a 21 year old member of the massachusetts air national guard. cnn has not independently verified his identity, and it's not currently naming him both the times and the washington post said the man is the leader of a chat group on the online platform discord and his older than most members of the group of ga...

Documents before we had names. we're getting some details from this reporting from the washington post overnight, and david priests want to bring you back in here. based on your time in the cia, we look at what we know in terms of this reporting that this is a 21 year old man he's described as a gun enthusiast feels like in some of these descriptions, somebody who's hungry for power that he would get angry if the people in his chat group weren't paying enough attention. to some of the information that he was posted. what type of a profile does that start to paint for you, david? yeah i would l...

Whether he somehow secured -- again, allegedly, these highly classified documents and posted them to this chat group. we're seeing evidence that he was promoted to the rank of airman first class, someone by his name was promoted in this intelligence community of the massachusetts air national guard, and we are being told by law enforcement sources that they have been aware of this person for some time and that they are moving forward with their investigation , that actio is imminent in this case. >> you touched on this, i want to go back to it he's 21 years old, yes, he's an airman first class...

But clearly what's going on here is there are people with top secret clearances who are not behaving responsibly that is an endemic and systemic problem that the military and intelligence community is grappling with. >> when they say they've been tracking him for some time does that mean since all of this became public? does that mean before this happened from the time that he first had access to some of this do we know what that means, that he'd been tracking it for some time >> our sense is that they mean since this story broke, since the u.s. government became aware that these classified do...

Documents as fox news learns it could have come from outside the pentagon. >> ashley: lucas tomlinson joins us with the latest. good morning. >> lucas: the leading theory is the leaks came from a disgruntled security clearance similar to snowden. leaked to small chat group instant messaging platform popular with the gaming community. it is unclear who sent the documents of crumpled up paper and slides of intel briefings, most documents came from february and march. that month more documents posted to a chat focused on minecraft. pro-russian accounts reposted and officials say some documents ha...