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since 2021, iran has harassed, attacked or seized nearly 20 internationally flag merchant vessels and may for the united states increased the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling the strait of hormuz with partners following an uptick in iranian merchant vessel seizures. >> today the pentagon released a review about their personnel access handle classified information. what did he find? >> secretary austin ordered the 45-day review in the wake of the massive intelligence leak at the hands of the young international guardsmen. this review involved a 50 question survey of pentagon leaders to self assess how their personnel handled classified person all mike's information. the defense department announced it was setting up an office to strengthen insider threat monitoring and vetting procedures per the recommendations remain vague and include reviewing distribution lists. >> jennifer griffin live at the pentagon.
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classified documents in the top of the meeting he didn't say much he just said, you know, the d.o.d. takes this matter very seriously, and we're working to make sure we do everything we can to mitigate the damage now, some of the steps the pentagon has taken is clamping down more on the information that people have access to, narrowing down distribution lists of this classified information, so he went through all that with allies interestingly, that was sort of the extent of the discussion i spoke to several european defense ministers and others while we were in germany, and they don't seem to have been phased at all by this leak, which included a lot of classified information about the battlefield in ukraine right now. which, of course, is highly relevant to this discussion. the response that i heard most was that these things happen of course, as the biden administration says, it was a crime. it was someone who had top secret clearance, who took this information and put it on the internet that's a crime
50 members three days before teixeira's arrest suggesting the fedding were surveilling the suspect for several days. the affidavit shows teixeira swiped his security backs on base a day before his arrest. >> we are calling through some of our distribution lists and who has access to certain information. that effort is going to be ongoing. it's not just going to stop tomorrow. it's not just going to stop after a week. this is a long-term effort. >> it's not clear whether teixeira will eventually face ucmj charges in a u.s. military court. fbi investigators are looking at a former aviation electronics technician with a top secret security clearance who allegedly
thank you very much for that. we also have new cnn reporting this morning. the pentagon is now limiting who gets access to highly classified daily intelligence briefs. some u. s officials are being cut out from an email list despite having the proper clearance following that major leak of classified documents on was just talking about natasha bear turned joins us now their head well, this is separate from the issue of over classification, which we heard bill byrne talking about this week, but you know, it's interesting what the pentagon is doing to try to put a lid on this because we don't know if the leaks over exactly right, poppy. so, as we've reported, the pentagon has been doing this internal investigation to try to figure out how to stem the flow of future leaks, and what they have done is they have started to comb through the distribution lists of these highly classified documents that are distributed across the entire government daily and they have begun to whittle down those lists, and we are told that people across the government different agencengono
those distribution lists, update them, make sure there's a need to know. let me just emphasize my point that this was a -- we have rules in place each of us signs a nondisclosure agreement. anybody that has a security clearance and so all indications are, again, this is criminal act, a willful violation of those, and another reason we're continue to go investigate and support doj's investigation. >> the last question, do you have a sense that this is just the act of one individual and even if so, wouldn't members of his chain of command also be held accountable for this lost information? >> again, i don't want to speculate or get ahead of the doj's investigation. we need to allow that to run its course, and so i would refer you to them. let me go ahead and go to gordon and i'll come back to jen. >> two questions, one, just to clarify, in dod's efforts to change the way you do business
general? >> sure, so we continue to review a variety of factors as it relates to safeguarding classified materials this includes examining and updates distribution lists, assessing how and where intelligence products are shared and a variety of other steps i would say, though, that it is important to understand that we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act, a violation of those guidelines and so, again, i think that's important to understand. we will continue to do everything we can to ensure that people who have a need to know when it comes to this kind of information have credit to that. we're always going to learn from every situation. but again, this is something that we'll continue to look at. >> but you are taking steps to tighten that, i guess, population who might have access to this level of information >> that's accurate again, we continue to review
variety of factors as it relates to safeguarding classified materials. this includes examining and updating distribution lists, assessing how and where intelligence products are shared in a variety of other steps. i would say, though, that it is it is important to understand that we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified and sensitive information. this was a deliberate criminal act, a violation of those guidelines. and so again, i think that's important. understand. now we will continue to do everything we can to ensure that the people who have a need to know, uh, when it comes to this kind of information have access to that . we're always going to learn from every situation. um but again, this is something that will continue to look at. but you are taking steps to tighten that. i guess population who might have access to this level of information that's accurate again. we continue to review
do you have a need to know that information, and that typically will grant you access if you have the appropriate clearances. thank you. >> thanks. >> travis. >> thanks, pat i'm still confused on the access issue. you said that there were changes that were made but you also said that you're reviewing things can you tell us are there less people who have access to this type of information today than there were a week ago? >> so, travis, again, i'm not going to get down to numbers again, reviewing distribution lists, looking at who has a need to know, making sure those things are updated doing due diligence in the wake of these unauthorized disclosures. again, though, i want to emphasize that this was a deliberate criminal act to violate those guidelines and rules in the same way that if you locked your front door and somebody came into your house and took something, you followed your procedures and you locked your door, but somebody went in your house and took something