Massachusetts Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking classified documents
The FBI has someone that they want to interview related to the leaking of classified documents from the Pentagon. The individual they are interested in is a 21-year-old Guardsman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. This individual is assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing. He is also involved with Thug Shaker Central, an online group.
From Fox News:
President Biden said earlier Thursday that the U.S. is “getting close” to finding the person responsible for leaking Pentagon documents that the Department of Defense has described as containing “sensitive and highly-classified material.”
“I can’t right now [give an update]. There is a full-blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and Justice Department and they are getting close,” Biden told reporters during his trip to Ireland. “I don’t have an answer for you.”
The president also said “I’m concerned that it happened but there is nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence.”
The Washington Post first reported last night that the person behind the leak is a man in his 20s who worked on a military base and shared the classified information on the chat app Discord.
The top-secret intel that has been shared online included movements of high-ranking political leaders, updates on military forces, detailed charts of battlefield conditions in Ukraine and satellite images of the aftermath of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian facilities. Other documents, according to the report, included the potential trajectory of North Korean ballistic nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S. and pictures and information on the surveillance technology attached to the Chinese spy balloon that the Biden administration allowed to float across the U.S. in February.
Fox News has additional details.
Category: Military issues
****UPDATE****
He’s been arrested.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/national-guardsman-jack-teixeira-arrested-in-us-intel-leaks/
Good info here:
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/04/13/breaking-nyt-identifies-military-leaker-as-an-air-national-guardsman-n543636
The FBI may suck at doing investigations of actual national security threats but spoon feed them a fake dossier, a good story and point them at a political enemy and watch them go. Millions of dollars and four years later they will tell you it is indeed fake. Maybe.
Yeah, seems like they could have put this much effort into finding the one who leaked the Roe v Wade preliminary decision… I mean it’s not like they’re only targeting people they think are conservative is it?
Better haul ass to Russia (but that does not seem a great option these days) or start the hormone therapy to beat the charges…..
While I never condone the leaking of classified/secret material, it’s interesting to note how quickly this individual was apprehended. Especially considering the some of the information is in direct contrast to what we’ve been told.
Also, interesting to note is why we don’t know:
Ukraine phone-call whistle blower (though names have been mentioned)
Epstein Client list
Dobbs/Roe v Wade leaker
Seems that if the leak is embarrassing to the DC Swamp, they act with lightning speed…
If it’s not, we just will never know…seem odd?
Allegedly the jackhammer posted some of it on line. Then took it down. Then was compromised. He was running though the six with his woes.
Interesting also to note they needed armored vehicles and full battle rattle. Quite the desperado, that young airman.
Air national guard does not play. With the training and skills those guys have they could easily become Hitman for hire.
I don’t know how fast they act, Epstein’s former cellmate, a former police officer and Mafia Hitman was just convicted of his sixth murder. They don’t seem to be any hurry to do anything with him.
Never let a crisis go to waste:
“The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine’s war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young, charismatic gun enthusiast who shared highly classified documents with a group of far-flung acquaintances searching for companionship amid the isolation of the pandemic.
“United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/
Sorry, wrong link:
“Biden administration mulls expanding online surveillance after missing leak: Report”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/biden-administration-considering-expanding-online-surveillance
Works either way. WaPo demonizing gun owners, Feds expanding domestic surveillance, to them its all good
Well, this is right up there with SOMEONE dropping the President’s Security Travel Detail documents on the streets of Belfast…D’OH!!!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/security-documents-biden-northern-ireland-visit-found-belfast-street
His name is Jack Teixeira who was reported to have been stationed at Fort Bragg.
Jack Teixeira.
“A Facebook post in July from the 102nd Intelligence Wing, which is headquartered at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, congratulated an individual with the same name as Teixeira on a promotion to airman first class.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-officials-identify-leaked-classified-documents-suspect-21-year-old-rcna79577
His Full Name is Jack Douglas Teixeira.
Wonder if this is him?
https://youtube.com/@jackdouglasteixeira8912
Can you believe they gave access to Top Secret intel to a 21 year old E-3 in an ANG intel unit? I was an SF captain in a SF Group S-2 section before I was given a TS clearance and access to TS docs.
Good point, rgr769!
According to my college friends, my TS background investigation was conducted by FBI agents, not some government contractor, which is apparently the case now.
I was 21 year old E3 when I was granted a TS/SCI clearance the first time.
I was a 22 year old Sp4
Me too! Took the FBI about six months to do the investigation; went to school, etc., on a provisional (which was the practice). Boy! Were we ever drilled about access, need to know, foreign intel traps, etc. Couldn’t actually access anything until I was cleared.
Part of the last interview went like this:
Q: Your neighbor said you were a dope-smoking, dirty, nasty hippy.
A: I was a long-hair college student living amongst dirty nasty dope-smoking hippies, but I wasn’t one. I actually washed my clothes and never smoked dope.
TS went into abeyance after it was no longer needed and it expired.
I didn’t get TS/SCI until I was a captain and was the Director of Security, Plans, and Operations (group S3) at Camp Zama, Japan.
Yep.
I can.
I was a 18 year old SP4 and all I got was a SECRET clearance and a KY-8 Speech Encryption Device to lug around with my AN/PRC 77. 😜
Geez, do I feel discriminated against. I only got a confidential clearance. Then again I only got to play with AN/PRC 25 and AN/VRC 12, and AN/PRC 6 just for giggles.
Where did I go wrong?
You mean the KY-38. My radio operators hated lugging that thing around. Our hated Bn commander loved to call me around midnight and chew my ass. Otherwise, it was practically never used when we were in the bush. But it sure ate batteries, IIRC.
Makes a great field expedient stool.
My bad…I blame age! 😜
“Can you believe…”
Yes. I have long since given up any belief that the intelligence/defense establishment has any real competence. After Bradley Manning showed how wide open our national “secrets” are any rational, competent, organization would have plugged that gaping chasm of vulnerability.
It is, of course, Joe Biden’s responsibility. Is there nothing that man can’t fuck up?!?
Well, there is a Peanut Butter Sandwich. Scratch that, Joe would put the side of the bread slathered in Peanut Butter on the outside.
Had a Secret clearance at 18. Depending on what we didn’t do/where we didn’t go, we’d have interim TS clearance.
I’m sure somewhere there are a few Page 13 statements I signed promising me many enjoyable years at Club Fed were we ever to discuss ops.
Looks like that “Congrats” aged well.
This kid shouldn’t even be charged with disclosure and mishandling top secret info and docs. After all, he didn’t “intend” to harm national security, just like Hillary didn’t intend to harm national security when she sent all those TS and SCI docs to her home server and have her Guatemalan house maid print then out at her home.
Hillary Clinton has already released a statement saying there was no release of any classified information. She then comped them a free hammer to destroy the server with.
Naw, she had them use Bleach-Bit on the server. It was the Blackberries and I-pads that were smashed with hammers.
👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏
Looks like a Co-Pilot.
In the interest of protecting America’s secret, security clearances should never be granted to any jackwagon who posts a selfie in a bathroom mirror.
The look of a stone-cold killing machine.
Bubba in lockup at USDB is already excited…
Looks like a Bradley boy. He’ll be so pretty in prison.
For some reason, I wanna give him a wedgie and stuff him into a locker
Whistleblower protection like the others under Obama?
Douche
Will this investigation inhibit the FBI’s dogged investigation into the leaker of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
Is Jack Douglas Teixeira wearing the NDSM?
What us the other ribbon/medal he is wearing?
Air Force Training Ribbon?
Kinda like the Army’s ASR.
Admins, Please delete this entry/comment.
I fat-fingered my sign-in name and don’t want everybody to think I’m a gurl. / s.
Thank You.
Gloria Clawson?????????
Bwa-Hahahahahahaha.
😂
AF Training Ribbon? Kinda like the Army’s ASR?
NDSM and AF Training Ribbon. He must have come in after they stopped giving everyone the GWOT-SM.
I’m not convinced its the Training Ribbon, because the colors look wrong. Plus, he has slick sleeves, so that picture was before any rank was obtained. It also looks like he’s wearing officer collar insignia, not enlisted (enlisted insignia are inside a circle). Maybe the photo is too grainy for my old-ass eyes.
It’s possible to graduated basic as an E-1. While the colors do look off, I think that’s the lighting. You can see the circle around his collar brass, but again the lighting isn’t too great.
It’s NOT the Air Force Training Ribbon,
blue with 1 red center and 2 yellow stripes,
given to ALL airman who complete Air Force basic training.
Check the Massachusetts National Guard ribbons list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_and_Space_Training_Ribbon
Okay, not the AF Training ribbon. It can only be one of two things then:
It’s the Air Force Developmental Special Duty Ribbon from when he was named the Buffer Riding Champion of the Basic Training Dormitory or:
It’s the ribbon for a Distinguished Flying Cross being used as the first entry in a poser/embellisher’s starter kit. / s
No wonder AF E-4’s end up with four rows of ribbons.
I worked on an AFB once. The E5 who was the clerk at the dry cleaners had a half dozen patches on his fatigues(?). Of course it was a SAC base. He had applied for Combat Controller school, so there is no telling how many patches he wears now.
Well, we went to 102nd Intelligence Wing website…
And this was second on their site, right after “Our Mission”…
*Sigh* 🙄
“SAPR PROGRAM INFORMATION”
“102nd Intelligence Wing’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program”
https://www.102iw.ang.af.mil/
The Vision of the 102nd Intelligence Wing:
“To be recognized as the Air National Guard’s premier fighting force, universally respected for performance and reputation.”
“….respected for performance and reputation…”
Wonder if any heads of Ole Jack’s Chain of Command will roll?
Wait a second…Isn’t Ole Brandon Boy part of Jack’s Chain of Command?
😉😎
The nicknames of the 102nd Intelligence Wing are “Eagle Keepers” and “Bear
Chasers”.
Their Motto is “Omnis Vir Tigris”
(Everyone A Tiger)
😏
“Everyone is a Tiger” is a bad translation of “Omnis Vir Tigris”
The actual translation is:
“Every Man a Tiger”
Vir = man as in virile!!
Everyone is a Tiger would be:
Omnis est tigris
You Latin Mass guys know the kerfluffel about “Pro Multis” and “Pro Omnibus” [for many v. for all]
I called their SAPAR hotline and explained there was a chat room on TAH with a live feed with straight, white, right wing, males on it that were trying to groom impressionable young men. They said they were dropping everything and would be right on it.
“What are you wearing?”
REEEEEEEEEEEEE!
What did happen to the live feed? 🤔
They must have been fast. Allegedly they also support people owning guns.
You should let them know I’m wearing a MAGA hat, a light coat of CLP, and nothing more.
This place could use ‘a few good
mendeerkin’ to go with the rubber sheets and house music.Please let them know to NOT use flash bangs this time, they upset the gimp whence lastly and we’ve had to discontinue use of the strobe.
Makes the midnight furry orgy less…. interesting.
To be fair. He was not arrested for sexual assault.
Well, Hell’s Bells, where do eWe PeA-pUlL expect these youngsters to store pilfered docs? It’s not like they have a garage with room for boxes of this stuff next to their classic cars…or a private server in a closet at mom’s house. They gotta stash them somewhere, how else will they be able to show to their buds and gets some of that street cred of “stickin’ in to da man.” ‘sides, putting them on line means they can find them again, quickly, when they’re doing research for their “Call of Duty” missions. What better way to win an online war game than to have studied the mistakes/successes of others? /s/
Not condoning what dumbass here did, but you can rest assured that with him being a white boy, he’ll get nailed with the maximum penalty available.
Another thing I heard about his group is that it’s almost ALL teenage Boys with him being the oldest, some kind of creeper thing, maybe?
Regardless, those of us that have had (or continue to have) TS are pretty heavily screened. Furthermore, at least for me I signed basically a NDA saying anything I learned could never be revealed (or however the language was phrased). Seems like ‘ol Tex was lookin’ to impress his buddies. Hope he likes breaking big rocks into little rocks.
As well as screeching for Bubba & Thor in the showers.
A long time ago I read an interesting counter point. Please forgive my paraphrase if you know the original quote.
’90 to 95% (maybe98%) of what you think is secret is available in a good public library. The only problem is picking the right library and knowing which shelf to look on.’
Who gave a 21yr old E3 a security clearance that allowed for this type of access? And why are they not going to jail? I can only drop so much blame on this idiot kid. His superiors should carry most of the blame for this shit show.
Not so much the 21 yo E-3, but an ANG?, who was running the classified distribution list, and wtf was he doing anywhere near the list? Imagine the stretch to get a Mass ANG E-3 on the “Need to Know” list for all of that information. Oh, there was a large cluster involved. My guess is that pretty boy is somebody’s girl friend. But I’ve become somewhat jaded since President Biden assumed office.
Recall Bradley Manning. A lowly E4 in a Brigade HQ in Iraq had access to, among other things well above his pay grade and need to know, Top Secret State department documents. It seems that some things never change; “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose”, “Those who do not know the past….”, etc.
Says Airman, which is an E2.
News said Airman 1st class but I could be wrong.
But Reality Winters and Bradley Manning are heroes…
/sarc?
Mike ‘The USMA at West Point grad’ Pompeo wanted to blow up Assange for malicious journalism in the first degree.
It’s a strange time to be alive. Full of pansies and hypocrite scum sucking f*cks.
I’d bet it is indeed, “full-blown”.
Gloryholng FiB always gets their man… unless that man is, you know; on Jeffery’s list (where dat at?!), a Clinton (redundant), a JP Morgan Chase commodities trader (again), a paid informant on the ground during 06JAN (perhaps, still?), a non-paid informant on the ground during 06JAN (you know they loved Lolita Express!), an election worker in GA, AZ, MI, etc (naw. right?), the 12 ‘never wanted to learn how to land’ mostly peaceful students at a flight school (9 year olds, dude), whoever set the guard shack on the ground of the White House on fire in 2020, so on and so forth.
So some guy ran out with printed red bannered slides for internet points?
-or-
Did he embarrass The Empire?
Which, at this point, is the Higher Crime?
Skimmed fifty comments and nobody has yet pointed out how problematic it is that the federal CINC set the bar pretty low on the handling of classified docs. That’s exhibit A in this kid’s defense. Let’s hope the governor of MASS has a better track record so they can hammer this ‘tard. (I don’t think he’s a re tard because he hasn’t done it before…)
I made a veiled/vague reference to just that in my comment and how a former SoS handled classified comms/docs. A real good lawer may just get the numbnuts off…or at least a reduced type sentence.
*sigh*
I just knew someone would blame Joe Biden for this. I even made a sarcastic comment referring to it in a previous comment.
It seems this [initial of president] Derangement Syndrome thing, BDS in this case, has passed from the realm of sarcastic humor to an actual psychological malady.
I was actually squarely in the realm of sarcastic humor. But it’s only funny because it’s true. *Sigh*
My apologies. I definitely approve of sarcastic humor. But, to misquote you, it’s only irritating because it’s true.
Actually, in my humble (legal) opinion, exhibit A would also include their background check on him to see if they ignored any warnings OR they waive any requirements for his entrance into the service, etc., etc.
I call bullshit.
Posting it now, so I can give myself celebratory handjobs later.
I’ll stick with innocent until proven guilty.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to buy a guilty verdict on its face. The release was very likely politically motivated, but the information being leaked about the leaker seems a bit convenient. He’s young and, as is par for the course for intel, likely stupid about many things… a great option for a modern-day “spy who never was.”
TS/SCI access doesn’t surprise me, but the breadth of details released… I’d be very interested to know how he gained access to it all without a need-to-know.
I’m admittedly biased, as I don’t trust this administration to not scapegoat.
I would be interested to find out how he was able to access all this info for being on duty 1 weekend a month, 2 weeks a year.
Especially if he had to access many different govt agencies to find said info.
I’m sure none of its in the easy to use index at the beginning of the document being searched.
Plus, it’s most likely written in govt gobbledygook language instead of plain English.
I feel he is a fall guy for all this. They found him quick enough, but the leaker in Roe v Wade has yet to be found. That leaker was probably a justice who knew where the court was heading on their ruling.
He was a full time Guardsmen in Title 32 status according to reports I saw.
I don’t know if he was an AGR or Technician.
Aren’t all National guardsmen full time, but only on an on call as needed status?
A couple of coworkers of mine are National Guard, but only as mentioned above, 1 weekend a month, 2 weeks per year.
That’s a full time schedule I could get used to.
Guard E2 with this level of SCI intelligence? BS.
He’s fucked, plain and simple.
I don’t buy it. A know nothing kid leaks secret I formation? Righhhht.
Air Force leaking again WTF
Ahh yes another “low-level” enlisted “leaker”….
One wonders if we ever intend to ask the appropriate questions around these issues…or if we simply will continue to pretend that enlisted personnel E4 and lower operate in a total vacuum completely unsupervised.
Command responsibility without accountability remains a never ending issue in our military….
Someday we might actually remove the people who seem unwilling or unable to find the missing 60% of their 3.5 trillion in assets, or hold the commanders of these units that play fast and loose with classified materials accountable for the lack of a best practices reality within their command structures.
More likely we’ll continue to sit back and let the news media pontificate on just how a 21 year old dipshit was granted access to some of the most sensitive intelligence information the nation possesses at the moment…as if that same dipshit was some sort of super villain hacker instead of a moron given more access than he needed by people too fucking lazy to secure the information and do the work themselves.
Remember the E-4 that Shinseki and that turd SMA Tilley said placed the unauthorized order for the 4 million black berets from China?
Guess he had the Army’s credit card…..
Just like Abu Ghraib I bet…notice that of the 11 people convicted and all that were sentenced to be jailed were enlisted(one enlisted was not jailed)….as if none of the officers had any culpability whatsoever….they demoted a general but she claimed she had no idea what was going on….
If you wrote this shit in a book people would call it fiction, but here we are in real life.
We’ll see if anyone with actual authority gets caught up in this shit.
Even with a TS clearance there is a “need to know” component
I’m curious. Just how did a junior ANG airman come into contact with documents that would be that critical to national security? It’s not like those things are left laying around at the Guard HQ. I’m thinking that this was a setup and the kid is a scapegoat. The dem media is all saying the same scripted remarks which makes it even more questionable.
That’s the question. How does a MA ANG E-3 have routine, casual access to JCS briefing materials?
Some (Daily KOS) have suggested he might have been the gofer who prepared/carried/whatever the slides for someone authorized to present (or read) the briefing.
The same way Bradley Manning did.
Some of you guys need to understand. Access to classified material is not so much based on age / rank, but MOS and duty assignment. I was a 19 year old E-3 with TS/SCI. I had unrestricted access to my unit’s SCIF. I had full access to SIPR and JWICS, which I did need for my job. When I became a 20 year old E-4, I was made my unit’s SSR. Which gave me the authority to change all passwords to our classified safes, change the keycode for the SCIF, and to temporarily revoke access to all classified material and systems under my purview. A lot of this was due to the fact that my unit’s SSO was lazy and I basically did all of her duties.
Indeed you touch upon exactly my point a lazy fucking SSO who becomes apathetic to the nature of the work….
Proving the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt is somewhat accurate…that individual become so accustomed to nothing bad happening they never considered procedures that should always require two people watching each other all the fucking time….
That’s always how a breach happens whether data or physical security, we get lazy and undisciplined because nothing bad has happened….yet. Then when it does it reveals the systemic nature of decline in both operational security and best practices.
Appreciate the insight from your perspective!
Excellent explanation of ” Normalization of deviance”
Trust, but verify. Two Person Integrity when handling classified material, and clearing an “empty” firearm when it is handed to you.
“Empty” firearm?
There is no such thing.
I guess the days of the quiet professional are over. In our social media driven world so many now have a “look at me complex”. They crave somebody to look at their genitals, gender, good deeds, misdeeds, crimes and idiocy. Being spiritually bankrupt they no longer have the assurance that a kind benevolent God is going to take all of that into account. They want to be weighed and measured and rewarded today For whatever it is that their ego thinks they are worthy of.