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flexghost.Apr 13, 2023

So the person who leaked US intelligence was a young white conservative gun-enthusiast and male.

A member of his Discord server described him this way: "He's fit. He's strong. He's armed. He's trained. Just about everything you can expect out of some sort of crazy movie”

Guns. God. Putin.

He and others like him get to handle our nations secrets. Think about that

It’s time to call conservatives what they are: domestic terrorists.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/big-us-intelligence-leak-was-by-gun-enthusiast-20s-washington-post-2023-04-13/

Big U.S. intelligence leak was by gun enthusiast in 20s, Washington Post reports

The person who leaked U.S. classified documents prompting a national security investigation is a gun enthusiast in his 20s who worked on a military base, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing fellow members of an online chat group.

Reuters

jwstark Apr 13, 2023

@flexghost It was pretty clear from the start that this would be the profile. Having seen it first hand, there is a lottttt of these insider threats because the feds aren't actually looking at white supremacist/nationalist groups when vetting for clearances.

I'm kinda wondering how someone this young not only gets this sort of clearance but such unsupervised access to it. Lordy, my early days Secret had more oversight. Hell, make that my Confidential.

Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost I had a TS/SCI at 18 in 1988 so I’m not sure when the time was that they had more oversight

flexghost.Apr 13, 2023

@Gorba @MKSinSA @jwstark I’d hope so

MKSinSA Apr 13, 2023

I'm not so much questioning his ability to get the clearance as much as I am a seriously junior, enlisted National Guardsman's need to know (a preq to access) in conjunction with being unsupervised.

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Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost I did briefings for a general in the run up to deployment in the first gulf war, it was often only me in the room, with no one else and reports that would blow your mind.

Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost So, there is the possibility he was doing similar briefings for possible air guard deployments at various hot spots which would give a low ranking analyst access with little supervision

MKSinSA Apr 13, 2023

@Gorba @jwstark @flexghost

I can see our experiences differ, which is cool. In my Army world, we daily had to log out and back in each and every classified document with the custodian (O3 or E7 up) inside the OC. That's the reason for my shock, I'd presumed it was universal SOP.

Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost Reserves can be different during the first gulf war they looked for volunteers to man the EOC with the one guy who was a civilian who ran it, to build briefings for the 88th ARCOM staff. All the reports came directly in. There was no signing anything thing in, just access to the equipment.

Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost that’s likely where the security loophole is, in prepping air guard & reserve command staff

MKSinSA Apr 13, 2023

See, that's what you get talking to an uninitiated active duty grunt 😲

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Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost we are both former grunts, and I bet you have more time in service. I just bounced around a lot of training bases since they gave us a lot of options for extra duty my employers couldn’t refuse and I was going to college so, I ended up all over TDY

Gorba Apr 13, 2023

@MKSinSA @jwstark @flexghost let’s just say those EOCs for reserves worked differently than the active duty SCIFs I was at. It was pretty ridiculous really.

MKSinSA Apr 13, 2023

Totally agree!

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jwstark Apr 13, 2023

@Gorba @MKSinSA @flexghost I doubt the dude had NTK and it was just lax control from a higher up. Even with clearance there's no way he was authorized for this level of info.
I have a feeling his superiors are going to have a bad few weeks to put it mildly.