Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today's Thursday, April 13th, 2023.

I'm John Puthore. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a greenwald high Abe.

Hi, John, media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute fellow Christine

Rosen, high Christine.

Hi, John.

And joining us today in Matt Contnetti's stead are tech commentary columnist veteran journalist,

host co-host of the How do we fix it podcast James B. Meg's high gym.

Great to be back, John.

Okay, so we got to talk about this person who works on a military base in his early 20s,

fit a gun enthusiast and the manager and Cuba of a small group of people on the discord,

social media secret conversation app made up of gamers who were lonely during the pandemic.

This is apparently the person who is responsible for the most serious breach in US intelligence

since certainly since reality winner in 2017 and possibly since Edward Snowden in the

early 2010s.

And we learned this in a remarkable piece in the Washington Post that locates this leaker

because of an interview with a kid who has not yet attained his majority.

So he's probably still in high school who worships this leaker and says that he is his best

friend and he saved his life.

And at just some point in the ongoing conversations that they were having in this group of people

who probably numbered a couple dozen that he started trying to explain the world to them.

And then he started to reveal the contents of various classified documents and annotate

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