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As the Department of Defense moves to tighten things up, some point to the burden the amount of classified material puts on the system
The US Department of Defense is moving to tighten rules over who is allowed to access the most sensitive intelligence, amid mounting criticism of the Pentagon’s policies for access to sensitive material in the wake of the arrest of a 21-year-old air national guardsman suspected of leaking dozens of highly classified documents.
The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, who has been convening daily meetings to manage the fallout from the leak, ordered a review of “intelligence access, accountability and control procedures … to prevent this kind of incident from happening again”.
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