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I Oversaw the Massachusetts Air National Guard. I Cannot Fathom How This Happened.

The government may classify too much intelligence, but that doesn’t mean a low-level employee should be able to see it.
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From 2006 to 2009, as part of my duties as the homeland-security adviser to then–Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, I oversaw the state’s Air National Guard. I have no idea why one of its members would even have access to the kind of high-level secrets that recently showed up on a Discord server.

This afternoon, Airman Jack Teixeira in connection with

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