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.
“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.”
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.