Air Force opens own investigation into secret documents leak
The Air Force has opened its own probe into the secret documents disclosure and says the accused leaker’s unit is no longer carrying out its intelligence mission. The Air Force on Tuesday said it has begun its own investigation into how a young airman allegedly was able to access possibly hundreds of highly classified documents he's accused of posting on the internet. Top officials also announced that the unit 21-year-old Airman 1st Class Teixeira was assigned to -- Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts -- has been removed from its intelligence mission and its work is now being done by other units. "I've tasked our inspector general to go look at the unit and anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong from the point of view of implementing our policies -- to see what things allowed this to happen," Secretary of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee. An Air Force statement explain...