Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we start with this major breaking news story

this afternoon FBI agents arrested.

The suspect behind the leak of highly classified and damaging Pentagon memos, 21-year-old Massachusetts

Air National Guardsman Jack Tashira was identified after a cascade of shocking news reporting

reports in the Washington Post, New York Times and Belling Cat show that Tashira allegedly

led a small online chat group on the encrypted platform discord often used by gamers.

Members of that group that Tashira reportedly dubbed thug shaker central seemed to mostly

be teenage boys who share a love of guns and military gear and they describe Tashira as

the quote undisputed leader of that chat group.

The post also reviewed a video posted by Tashira who members of the chat group call OG that

seemed to show him yelling anti-Semitic and racial slurs and showing off his gun.

Now those who know Tashira say he was just trying to impress his friends and keep them

in the loop on classified intelligence, which he then allegedly swiped from highly sensitive

briefing emails and apparently leaked to his small group over the course of several months

of Washington Post, interviewed a member of the group of the alleged leaker who spoke

on the condition of anonymity.

Take a listen.

I would not call OG but so blower in the slightest.

I don't think that there was a goal or some sort of accomplishment that he was looking

for and sharing these documents.

Of course there's some anti-government sentiment.

Now despite Tashira intentions, those documents did indeed become public, global and they left

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