how does a 21 one year old kid in the national guard get ahold of top secret documents.
No surprise. It’s another “Reality Winner” idiot kid.
Good going, that’s the first logical question posted so far.
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Exactly. Long term Air Guard family here. We are in very bad shape if a lowly, no stripe Guard troop has the ability to see and steal top secret info. Absolutely unbelievable!
Air Force ends up probably with two-hundred-odd airmen who get sent off to intel school yearly. Standard background check...usually easier with a 18-year old kid because no history much to review.
They drill the kid throughout the training school, and hype up what you can and can’t do security-wise.
I’ll just say from 1970s/1980s....people who went through the system...had a ‘burden’ on their back to obey regulations. Somewhere around 2000...you began to see people who didn’t see the ‘burden’ in the same way.
The military gamer crowd is in a special group by themselves, and you probably need a whole new view of their comprehension and ability to protect information.
I have wondered at length about that. It seems that once again they have ignored a basic tenet of security: need to know.
In what world does an E-nothing in the MAANG need access to some of the stuff he had (and it’s the same argument vis-a-vis Bradley Manning)?.
My wife and I have both held very high clearances. She was an engineer and had to go into a SCIF to view certain drawings and she was the only one in her group who could, including her boss,because she had the “need to know.”
Back in the day the USN took that very seriously. That’s how you keep secrets secret.
Some of the alphabet agencies like DEA use guardsmen as data analysts. He may have been doing something like that for DOD.
Precisely! I wouldn’t doubt if this was a set up.
“how does a 21 one year old kid in the national guard get ahold of top secret documents”.
He didn’t. It’s a set up.
And he would definitely not have access to internal CIA memos/documents as reported.