On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:59:36 -0500, JAB <
[email protected]d> wrote:
Lindsey Graham calls fellow Republican 'irresponsible' for defending
Pentagon leaker
Conspiracy theorist and election denier Marjorie Taylor Greene says
national guardsman Jack Teixeira has been treated unfairly
...
...
Other rightwing figures have also defended Teixeira, with Tucker
Carlson, the influential Fox News host, praising him as someone who
"told Americans what's actually happening in Ukraine".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/16/pentagon-leaker-lindsey-graham-marjorie-taylor-greene
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker
Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences
Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US
court on Monday.
Teixeira allegedly shared the top-secret files and photographs via his
private Discord server in February 2022, and these classified
documents later surfaced on social media. It's believed the
then-21-year-old, who reportedly liked gaming and guns, was obsessed
with mass shootings and conspiracy theories, and leaked the classified
military information in an attempt to impress his fellow gamers
online.
A US Air Force report made public in December concluded Teixeira was
the only airman behind the leak, though determined that his chain of
command bears some responsibility for letting the classified data dump
happen on its watch.
According to the report, Teixeira "was observed viewing intelligence
content on TS-SCI websites" in August 2022, referring to Top
Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information, and that his supervisor
did not officially document the incident. A month later Teixeira was
caught viewing intelligence documents while scribbling on a Post-It
note.
Teixeira, who was collared last April, previously pleaded not guilty
to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national
defense information.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/01/pentagon_leaks_teixeira/
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