Steve HermanThe leader of online gaming chat group where a trove of classified US intelligence documents leaked is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, reports NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Update: US government makes an arrest in the online leak of classified military documents.
“Today, the FBI took 21-year-old Jack Douglas Teixeira into custody without incident at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts, for his alleged involvement in leaking classified U.S. government and military documents.” - FBI
Trojan Duck@w7voa Let's get to the accomplices. This guy is a minnow.
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Pinchy 🇨🇦@w7voa hope he enjoys prison. He’s going to be there for awhile.
WhiteLadySpeaksSpanish@w7voa a guy betrays his county to impress a bunch of teenagers on a gaming site. It’s sad that he saw this cyber world as his realty.
@rebeccabguinn @w7voa Exactly. The young guy who was interviewed has issues…he referred to group not just as family, but close family. 🙄
Midwest Bob@w7voa Lock him up. Do they still use firing squads for treason?
South Beach@w7voa what does it say about the Massachusetts Air National Guard that they had no problem welcoming a racist anti-Semitic piece of shit into their ranks?
“I want to commend the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their swift arrest in connection with this investigation. I pledge the full support and cooperation of the Department of Defense to the DOJ’s investigation,” says Defense Secretary Austin in a statement.
“I want to underscore that every U.S. service member, DoD civilian and contractor with access to classified information has a solemn legal and moral obligation to safeguard it and to report any suspicious activity or behavior,” adds Defense Secretary Austin.
Memorandum issued by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on “Safeguarding Responsibilities Regarding Classified Information.”
WndlB@w7voa OK to post on Twitter, but not Discord, or do I have that backwards?
Jennifed@w7voa Like a sticky note on the break room fridge reminding people to not steal other people's food👍
James M.@w7voa given what we've learned about him, he doesn't seem like the sort to even understand responsibility, or what secrecy means. He also seems mentally unfit. Why was a person like this ever given access to sensitive documents? Is DoD going to review their own policies surrounding classified information?
Steve's Place@w7voa #Apple had us sit to wait for an ID in a room with a TV running security's pitch to not ever chat about what you're working on in any public setting to keep us company.
There were implied threats.
Apple put the fear of Apple in us.
Put another way, the security at Apple seems to have been considerably better at impressing the troops back then than the military's in the here and now.
Alexander Ruthol@w7voa
The core problem remains that the growth of the MAGA and tankies means that the US now has a large minority of the population which is predisposed to treason and sabotage because it hates the US government and most of the US population, and supports Putin.
The US is in the same situation the UK was after WW2, when it had large numbers of people predisposed to treason because they were communists and supported the Soviet Union and Stalin.
@w7voa Does this include the Commander in Chief?
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@SaturniusMons @w7voa Theoretically, to date. Let's see who gets indicted first!
@w7voa hate treacherous actions, but the Department of Defense made the availability of Ukrainian Report the same as "The Stars and Stripes". Heads should roll but not the National Guardmans
🍉 –Hans Bot– 🙃@w7voa Guns, Gods and Idiots
Sleestak@w7voa “While many pertained to the war in Ukraine, the members said they took no side in the conflict.”
I know this is debatable by some, but given that Russia is without question the aggressor here, “not taking a side” in the conflict is siding with Russia.
jonathanpeterson@w7voa Why does a 21 year old national guard enlisted man need access to high level analysis of Ukrainian war plans and readiness? Seems like a massive failure of intel compartmentalization. smh.
Ryan DeBarr@jonathanpeterson @w7voa he’s in the intel wing. Maybe he’s a sysadmin or the guy who cuts and pastes the data into a report.
Bill Beers@Ryandebarr @jonathanpeterson @w7voa The article makes it clear Teixeira is just the leader of the Discord group, not the person with clearance who obtained and posted the documents.
@beers @jonathanpeterson @w7voa yeah I didn’t read it 🥸 but rank doesn’t have a lot to do with access. If this young man isn’t the one that removed the files he’s still on the hook for sharing them because of his intelligence role.
@Ryandebarr @jonathanpeterson @w7voa getting warmer and you might be right yet about rank and branch https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/classified-docs-arrest-1234714427/
@beers @Ryandebarr @w7voa Yeah, I missed that in skimming 2 articles. That said, he's sworn military in intelligence and overseeing a server with a ton of secret documents. He's going to be in prison for a very, very long time.
@jonathanpeterson @Ryandebarr @w7voa Now Raw Story says it *is* Teixeira, so I dunno. They're citing WP and NYT so could be game of telephone.
@jonathanpeterson @Ryandebarr @w7voa ok now clearly it IS Teixeira copying and posting https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/13/us/documents-leak-pentagon/a-trail-of-digital-evidence-led-to-a-21-year-old-air-national-guardsman?smid=url-share
PólóThe message is clear. A secret is no longer a secret once you tell someone.
@w7voa unbelievable! Idiot!
Steve Grim@w7voa So young. SO screwed.
Just Me@w7voa So many questions. Does the military even teach them what a traitor is?
@w7voa a racist gun loving online gaming chat group of inCELS