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A Low-Level Leak

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/13/2023 9:56:51 PM

The worst security breach in many years occurred earlier this year, as top secret documents apparently taken from a high-level intelligence briefing were posted on a sort of group chat and went viral from there. Scott wrote about it here. There have been international repercussions, as several foreign governments, including Israel’s, have denied the accuracy of some of the claims made in the briefing. So who was the leaker who had access to this top secret briefing? Apparently it was a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira. So many people–including me–are asking, how in the world did this kid have access to a top-secret intelligence briefing?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dreadnought 4/13/2023 9:58:19 PM (No. 1447497)
Ok. Since he was assigned to a National Guard Intel unit, for starters he would have been subjected to a minimum of an ENAC (if it's still called that.) Since his job title (MOS?) is "cyber transport systems journeyman" that suggests that his security clearance would be something like Top Secret-Crypto (if that still exists.) Crypto sees wverythi g. That would require an additional Background Investigation which would involve shoe leather in-person interviews with neighbors, acquaintances, etc. Since gamers obsess over their equipment, gaming might be considered a positive factor in this area. In any event he passed. Perhaps there are gaps in the "consequences" section of whatever passes for military security training now. The gamer community should now expect to have a Twitter level involvement of federal and NGO snooping into their online activities from this point forward.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 4/13/2023 10:30:45 PM (No. 1447512)
How many (thousands) of people people have the same or more “sensitive” information? If everybody knows a secret but promises not to share, how secret or important can it be? Like having an affair that everyone in town knows about.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bamboozle 4/13/2023 10:45:37 PM (No. 1447516)
What was this guy's rank?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Birddog 4/13/2023 10:46:18 PM (No. 1447517)
The "Troubling" aspect is that he was tryin' to play the rough, tough, buffed up "warrior" to a bunch of tween/teen kids and THAT is why he did it, just imagine what one of Hunter Bidens Ukraine/Russian hookers could have gotten from him. Send him to Gitmo, not leavenworth.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: halfnorsk 4/14/2023 12:59:34 AM (No. 1447568)
We have a president who recently gave the Chinese (via a balloon) unfettered surveillance of our military bases. The same president who, before he took office, hauled boxes full of classified docs to his garage and other non-secure docs. So why should anyone else care about classified info being exposed?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 4/14/2023 7:27:11 AM (No. 1447670)
I once held a similar position in a former life. When you work in a government or military communications/IT center you must have clearance and access to everything that passes through it, everything. My clearance process went all the way back to my childhood. I would assume that in this new, gender-focused military, they knew what this kid had in his pants and cared about little else. The people who awarded him his clearance are completely at fault for not discovering who he really was.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Lawsy0 4/14/2023 8:38:55 AM (No. 1447729)
I smell a set up. Or a rat. Or someone is roasting a goat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: udanja99 4/14/2023 9:25:37 AM (No. 1447753)
How did he do it? Perhaps they should ask Joe how he managed, as a senator, to get classified documents from a Capitol Building SCIF into his garage.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: hershey 4/14/2023 9:53:02 AM (No. 1447775)
Sounds like they just threw some low level person under the bus...the FBI found this kid in what a couple days, and Hillarys 30,000 emails are still missing, and Biteme keeps secret documents all over the place...I smell a rat...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack 4/14/2023 11:52:32 AM (No. 1447869)
Like #6, I also held a secret clearances in the aerospace industry. In the first case my boss and his boss didn't carry a secret (not top secret) clearances. I was a young veteran being 22 years old. I believe the whole question of security should be looked at by non political experts who can make common sense decisions and controls. When politicians are not held to be accountable they are sending a different message about accountability and punishment to the rest of the world. This starts from the top down through the many layers of workers, and the corrupt media. To be effective there must be some non political policing powers also. Having a president who "believes in equal law and order" and yet knowingly disregards laws regarding the emigration laws day in and day out is a poor example.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bamboozle 4/14/2023 12:00:16 PM (No. 1447871)
The Air Force Times reports that he is an airman first class and....a devout Christian.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Birddog 4/14/2023 12:01:09 PM (No. 1447873)
It may well be this kid was an equipment tech, and was tasked with fixing repairing, computers, servers, printers etc that glitched. Stuff that was still in the "Download/Print" queue he captured rather than deleted, or wiped. There is a limited access for many of these doc's and any printing of them would also be logged into the printer file, who authorized it, who it was for, numbered copies, the return of all copies to the sealed burn bag. They do not "Travel", they are read in a secure location and then destroyed. He got or made print copies...so...
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