New Report: Airman Started Leaking Highly Classified Documents Over a Year Ago and No One Caught On

[mystery-ak]

New Report: Airman Started Leaking Highly Classified Documents Over a Year Ago and No One Caught On
By streiff | 2:30 PM on April 22, 2023


Early in April, about a hundred classified documents, some with the highest classification markings, appeared in social media posts. Of course, the ones that caught everyone’s attention first were those concerning the situation in Ukraine and US involvement there. As the story began to develop, it was learned that the documents may have made the leap to Twitter and Telegram in early April, but they had first been exposed in early March on a Minecraft community’s Discord server; see Secret Pentagon Documents Emerge on a Minecraft Players Forum, WTF?.



With the help of the media — as a side note, this may be the first time in history that major media have actively assisted law enforcement in identifying a leaker of intelligence information rather than printing it — the leaker was soon identified as a 21-year-old Air National Guard airman who worked as an IT specialist in an Air National Guard intelligence unit;

The New York Times, teaming up with the open-source intelligence (OSINT) group Bellingcat (which some claim is a CIA front), reports that the leaks that caused the identification and arrest of Airman Jack Teixeira were not his first.

    The Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers had been posting sensitive information months earlier than previously known and to a much larger chat group, according to online postings reviewed by The New York Times.

    In February 2022, soon after the invasion of Ukraine, a user profile matching that of Airman Jack Teixeira began posting secret intelligence on the Russian war effort on a previously undisclosed chat group on Discord, a social media platform popular among gamers. The chat group contained about 600 members.

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https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/04/22/airman-started-leaking-highly-classified-documents-over-a-year-ago-and-no-one-caught-on-n735226

[Free Vulcan]

Sorry if I'm skeptical that a 21 y/o has the clearance and can walk out of a secure facility with classified docs breeze thru the trees.

Give me a break. There is more to this than the boilerplate.

[rangerrebew]

Accused Air National Guardsman leaked classified intelligence for more than a year
A newly discovered Discord chat shows Jack Teixeira allegedly was sharing documents since the war in Ukraine began.

BY NICHOLAS SLAYTON | PUBLISHED APR 22, 2023 4:03 PM EDT

 
The Air National Guardsman who allegedly leaked dozens of classified documents onto a Discord chat had been doing it for twice as long as previously known, and to more people.

That’s according to a new report from the New York Times. Airman Jack Teixiera, already charged with leaking classified information to the smaller chat group, allegedly shared additional information to another Discord chat, with as many as 600 members, since February 2022. The information included details on both Ukrainian and Russian casualties in the war as well as details tracking Russian spies. Per the New York Times, the information was sourced from intelligence reports from the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, among others. The user profile on the second Discord server matches Teixeira.


Teixeira, 21, was arrested on April 13. He had been allegedly posting documents to a Discord group since October 2022, obtained through his work with the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He apparently was sharing the information not as a whistleblower, but to apparently curry favor and win arguments with the roughly 50 or so members of the group chat.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jack-teixeira-second-leak-ukraine/

[Kamaji]

Air Force suspends two leaders of alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira’s unit

By Victor Nava
April 26, 2023

The Air Force has temporarily suspended the two leaders of the intelligence unit where alleged Pentagon document leaker Jack Teixeira worked.

The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron and the detachment commander overseeing administrative support have both been temporarily suspended and no longer have access to classified systems and information, according to multiple reports citing Air Force officials.

Teixeira, a 21-year-old who worked as a cyber transport systems journeyman with the Air National Guard, was arrested earlier this month and is accused of posting hundreds of classified Pentagon documents online over the course of several months.

The two commanders are suspended pending further investigation by the Air Force Inspector General’s Office.

The Air Force stripped the 102nd Intelligence Wing of its assigned intelligence mission last week as part of the investigation into how Teixeira allegedly accessed and published the trove of highly sensitive documents.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/air-force-suspends-two-leaders-of-jack-teixeiras-unit/

[mystery-ak]

Jack Teixeira, alleged classified documents leaker, indicted by federal grand jury

Teixeira is facing six counts in relation to retaining documents.
By Aaron Katersky
June 15, 2023, 7:01 PM

Jack Teixeira, the member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of leaking classified documents online, has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

He is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relation to the national defense, according to the Justice Department.

Teixeira, 21, is accused of abusing his security clearance to take classified documents and post them on social media sites, according to the Department of Justice. Teixeira revealed the kinds of military hardware the U.S. was prepared to deliver to Ukraine to assist in its defense of Russia’s invasion and put the supply line in potential jeopardy, the indictment said.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-teixeira-alleged-classified-documents-leaker-indicted-federal/story?id=100121877

[mountaineer]

UPDATE


ABC News
@ABC
BREAKING: The U.S. Air Force has disciplined 15 people in its investigation of alleged Discord leaker Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira.

Story at ABC News:

Air Force disciplines 15 airmen in investigation of accused leaker Jack Teixeira
The other service members failed take proper action, the inspector general said.
ByLuis Martinez
December 11, 2023, 10:13 AM

Fifteen airmen have been disciplined -- including with removal of their command -- for failing to take proper action when they became aware of accused leaker Jack Teixeira's intelligence-seeking activities, according to a broad Air Force investigation released Monday.

However, that watchdog report found no evidence that Teixeira's immediate superiors were aware at the time that he was allegedly sharing some of the country's most sensitive secrets online.

Instead, the report details a pattern of lax oversight by Air Force officials at Teixiera's base. ...

[DefiantMassRINO]

Were his alleged "supervisors" let off the hook to spare embarasment further up the chain of command?

How many other intelligence stations are subject to "lax" supervision?

Why the Hell did the Massachusetts Air National Guard need access to such secrets?

This warrants a real Congressional investigation.

[mountaineer]

UPDATE

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira got intel briefings despite low-level job, bombshell Air Force investigation reveals
By Social Links for Caitlin Doornbos
Published Dec. 11, 2023, 5:24 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON – The 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who posted highly sensitive Pentagon documents online was privy to weekly intelligence briefings — despite the fact that he was only meant to maintain HVAC units and answer phones, according to a bombshell Air Force investigation.

The access given Jack Teixeira was just one of several glaring mistakes that led to disciplinary measures against 15 of his fellow Guard members — including his former unit commander — for failing to sufficiently supervise troops and alert proper authorities of concerning espionage-like activity.

Teixeira was indicted in June on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national military information after illegally obtaining and sharing dozens of classified documents online – including some papers related to Ukrainian troop positions.

Monday’s report found that the failures of Teixeira’s colleagues and superiors in the 102nd Intelligence Wing enabled the private to collect and disclose the sensitive information for more than a year completely undetected. ...

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