Posted on 04/13/2023 12:35:46 PM PDT by Morgana
FBI investigators have arrested Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old suspected of being behind the biggest US intelligence leak in nearly a decade.
Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that the National Guardsman had been arrested in North Dighton, Massachusetts 'without incident'.
He said Teixeira will appear in a local court as part of the investigation into 'alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmissions of classified national defense information.'
He was a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and the leader of an online chat group where top secret Pentagon documents were published.
It is the most embarrassing security breach for any US administration since WikiLeaks obtained more than 700,000 classified documents and diplomatic cables in 2013.
His identity was first revealed by the New York Times after a scandal-hit week for US President Joe Biden as the secret dossiers circulated online.
The inside of Teixeira's childhood home in Bristol, Massachusetts, matched photos of the sensitive files on US intelligence and the Ukraine war which have been shared on forums since the end of last year, according to the Times.
The FBI will now question Teixeira, whose mother Dawn confirmed to the Times that he is an active member working out of a base in Cape Cod and has been taking more night shifts.
A spokesman for the US Justice Department declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.
But a National Guard spokesman said: 'We are aware of the investigation into the alleged role a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman may have played in the recent leak of highly-classified documents.'
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As has been noted, he is a patsy, whose only future was to be thrown under the bus.
but we give the chinese all the information they want, and all they had to do was fly a balloon.
This kid didn't pay Hunter millions.
Except that it's not "law," it's a fundamental right protected by the Constitution by the Framers in Article I Section 8:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;-PJ
but, they can’t find the leaker in SCOTUS...
Why would a 21-year old have access to this information?
What American lives did he put at risk?
I don’t think he’s necessarily at fault on this.
This is the same “Intelligence community” that said Trump worked with Russia and that COVID had nothing to do with Fauci and the Wuhan lab.
In sum, our “Intelligence community,” has Alzheimer’s.
So you think he was set up and was coerced to expose all those classified docs?
Glowing glowing glowing
totally not a CIA bs operation - in case you thought it might be
When our government teaches kids and parents that 3- and 4-year-olds can change their gender, it follows that the rest of us can trust a 21-year-old with our national security.
“The inside of Teixeira’s childhood home in Bristol, Massachusetts, matched photos of the sensitive files on US intelligence and the Ukraine war which have been shared on forums since the end of last year, according to the Times.”It means that the inside of his childhood home looked like photos of the leaked files. Remarkable!
Terrible writing - I have no idea what that means.
Why isn’t he facing a military tribunal? Why federal court?
Good point and insight.
The current young people tend to be far removed from the old fashioned ideas of integrity and honesty.
Saying I read: “I cannot understand how students can fail in college when all you have to do is cheat.”
From “The Honest Truth About Teen Dishonesty” by Mark Gregston in parentingtodaysteens.org
....But it wasn’t necessarily those numbers that shocked me. What really rocked me back on my heels was that this recent study of American teenagers reported that while over 50% of teenagers admitted lying, cheating, or stealing within that last year, 93% of those same kids said they are “satisfied with their personal ethics and character.” In addition, 81% of those teenagers said that “when it comes to doing what’s right, they are better than most people they know.”
It would seem, sadly, that while dishonesty is taking a hold of more and more teenagers, they are blind to the fact that it is morally wrong. While it is in no way an excuse, we cannot overlook the way our culture glorifies all forms of dishonesty. I think we’d all be hard-pressed to name five unimpeachably honest public figures today. Who hasn’t turned on the TV or read the news in which a politician, business leader, sports figure, police officer, teacher or even a judge — those people we look up to as role models — has been caught in a lie, or has had a scandal exposed? And let’s not forget the explosion of popular, so-called, “reality” TV shows, whose strategy is usually based on deception and lying in order to gain a monetary prize or fame. While we should stress to our kids that we are all accountable for our own decisions, it’s difficult to reinforce the standards of honesty in a society that seems to broadcast that dishonesty is the far better road to travel.
So how can we reverse those statistics, and help our kids embrace truth over the lies?
Funny.
So the FIB agents should say to each other “Is it really right to arrest one of our own kind? And give the breeders something more to hammer us with? He’s gay like us.”
Bet he gets less time then the Jan 6 crew and if he’s a democrat he’ll go up in rank.
At the age of 20 with a top secret security clearance and working in a major communications relay station in Panama during my time in the Army, I had access to all kinds of TS communications traveling thru our center.
Because of his clearance Clarence. Probably didn't hurt that the originator also failed to mark the report so he would have been excluded by 'need to know'.
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