WASHINGTON — On an Air National Guard base in Cape Code, Mass., more than 1,200 military service members and civilians maintain one of the largest support systems for Pentagon drone missions around the world.
One of the workers was Airman First Class Jack Teixeira , the 21-year-old accused of posting top-secret military reports online.
Why such a young junior-ranking service member on Cape Cod had access to sensitive intelligence, including battlefield updates on the war in Ukraine, has to do with the massive expansion in military drone operations in the post-9/11 wars that was made possible by better satellite communication networks. […]
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