South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham expressed his surprise Sunday that a junior-level National Guardsman had a high enough security clearance to access classified documents as the fallout from the purported leak continues to unfold.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham expressed his surprise Sunday that a junior-level National Guardsman had a high enough security clearance to access classified documents as the fallout from"I was the captain and a major in the U.S. Air Force and. I would be surprised if I had that kind of information," the Republican senator told ABC News' Jonathan Karl during an appearance on "This Week.
"The system failed," Graham added. "This is a major failure and those who are trying to sugarcoat this on the right -- you cannot allow a single individual of the military intelligence community to leak classified information because they disagree with policy." "I am stunned that somebody at that level could have so much access. So the question is how did he get it and why did he do it?": The leak of what are believed to be highly-classified documents is one of the largest in years and revealed sensitive information about U.S. intelligence gathering in countries including Ukraine, Russia and Israel.There are concerns that the knowledge the U.S. spied on its alliesThe documents have not been authenticated by U.S.
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