This week, with digicam crews nicely positioned with the proper shot to take all of it in, federal brokers arrested a person for allegedly leaking labeled Pentagon paperwork largely associated to U.S. involvement within the ongoing proxy conflict in Ukraine.
Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been accused of leaking delicate U.S. intelligence paperwork on to a Discord server. For individuals who are unaware, Discord is an web messaging platform for a wide range of like-minded communities.
In accordance with the company media’s reporting, Teixeira was a member of a web-based Discord chat named Thug Shaker Central, which reportedly consisted of a pair dozen younger males, who used it for unfiltered conversations and sharing memes. It was on this chat the place Teixeira allegedly leaked the labeled data.
One nameless member of the chat instructed The New York Instances:
“This man was a Christian, anti-war, simply wished to tell a few of his pals about what’s happening . . . We’ve got some folks in our group who’re in Ukraine. We like combating video games, we like conflict video games.”
One other member of the Discord chat instructed The Washington Submit that Teixeira “had a darkish view of the federal government.”
No kidding.
It appears there’s a concerted effort within the legacy press to color a private image of Mr. Teixeira as an anti-government Trump-loving proper winger who’s undeserving of whistleblower protections. It’s not that he’s harming the popularity of the Present Factor . . . He is spiritual! He loves weapons! He is a “MAGAt!” Blue Anons, activated!
Someplace alongside the best way, the paperwork had been reportedly moved from the Discord chat to a wide range of public on-line boards.
It seems that the DOJ intends on throwing the guide at Teixeira and charging him underneath the Espionage Act, which might carry a heavy jail sentence.
Your humble correspondent has not seen the first paperwork first hand, however is conscious of them as a consequence of media shops reposting the labeled pictures.
The handfuls of leaked pictures and plans supplied proof that the Pentagon/NATO is way more intimately concerned in its proxy conflict towards Russia than beforehand understood. Particularly, U.S. troops have “mission essential capabilities” in Ukraine, regardless of by no means having declared conflict towards Russia. And never solely is the Biden Administration actively monitoring the Zelensky authorities’s each transfer, in keeping with the docs, however they’re additionally successfully operating level on the conflict effort. This shouldn’t come as a shock to those that perceive the facility dynamics of the Russia-Ukraine spat, nevertheless it actually clears up any doubts about who’s finally in cost in Kiev.
There’s plenty of chatter on social media pretty suggesting that Teixeira should’ve been a patsy or one thing comparable as a result of a 21 12 months previous shouldn’t have been in a position to have entry to such necessary labeled data. Nonetheless, let me remind readers that the person previously generally known as Bradley Manning was additionally a junior enlisted service member in his early 20s when he leaked a bunch of labeled data to Wikileaks. The parable of institutional competence is simply that: a delusion.
The Uniparty in D.C. has been noticeably, however unsurprisingly silent about Teixeira’s potential protections as an alleged whistleblower. That’s as a result of the alleged leaks hooked up to him may jeopardize the standing of the Present Factor. The folks in cost in Washington solely like universally-approved “whistleblowers,” they usually declare the likes of Edward Snowden and co as traitors to democracy and such.
Will the institutional press corps rise up for talking reality to energy?
After all not.
On the Pentagon presser immediately, the army’s churnalists paradoxically united behind calls for for a extra sturdy safety state that may higher protect data from the general public.
The Uniparty will let you know {that a} profession intelligence agent who spied on the previous president is an authorized whistleblower. The identical folks will then let you know that the alleged Ukraine whistleblower is a legal, as a result of he virtually made it tougher for his or her racket to proceed.
[Originally published at The Dossier on Substack.]
