After a week of scrambling by U.S. officials, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest of the suspect tied to the Pentagon classified documents leak: 21-year-old Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who took to online groups to share military secrets.
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All we hear about are “LEAKS”.
How did he get such info?
Why would a AFNG / A1C have a need-to-know about such vital information.
There has to be a link in the chain of command or the whole thing was set up.
Such tactics to implicate disloyal “stupid” members is common practice.
Why are we paying military members to be on social media?
😂😂😂😂 Discord
Make an example out of him. If I knew I would get my right hand cut off for stealing in a convenience store. It would deter me from stealing. As a US veteran please make an example of this week man. Our future depends on it.
I can tell you if your smart enough to work for the military your smart enough to know what’s your doing.
You cannot compare this to Edward Snowden. Fact, let’s sit down in an American courtroom and explain that to the fullest. As an American veteran, the world is laughing at us and it breaks my heart
A friend of mine from Uganda had a suggestion, he said “why has your country publicly stopped hanging criminals?”I did not know how to respond. Even though I was scared of that comment I knew deep down inside there was some form of Truth
I don’t believe it’s about age. It’s just about bad intent.
journeyman, skills, training, but no education
Maybe Kid Rock will write a song about him.
How does a 21 year old, National Guardsman acquire top Pentagon classified documents? Seriously, how does that happen?
😢
All world medias are focused on who leaked the files, and it seems, nobody is cared about the fact that those docs revealed that America illegally sent American soldiers in Ukraine to fight Russians.
Neither Senate , nor House, nor Biden are officially admitted that America is in war with Russia, but they sent their military ( even though they had denied it before this leak)…
Yep, that’s MAGA for you. Impress your friends with racial hatred, gun violence, and selling out your country with classified military information.
Does anyone think this kind of traitorous stupidity could exist without MAGA?
Access to secrets from other countries not just the USA, the USA cannot be trusted with anything, so much for safeguarding. Maybe the janitor has the highest clearance level..
MAGA civilian traitors inevitably mean MAGA military traitors. But the military stakes are higher.
Parents, please don’t raise your children to be MAGA racists and traitors.
Intelligent young man I love you bro
How did this extremely low level person get his hands on such high level documents?
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner tbh.
just a precursor of trump
hope this will set a standard of punishment including trump
I had the same accesses when I was in the military and 21 years of age. There is a need to know requirement. However, depending on your job position you still have the ability to see a lot of stuff anyway. He knew better.
Hes a scapegoat
Meet the depressed with Chuck Fraud.
‘It was basically to impress his friends’, well someone learned the only lesson 45 taught. Good for you bruv! maybe you can be cellies with ole boy and impress each other.
Oh look the weasel…… can’t post classified documents on line within storing them next to Corvette in your garage. America your about to see just how one sided the justice system is… i hear crickets chirping… Trump Biden pence Clinton’s?
Security clearance training ? Hillary did not know that the letter c next to a paragraph was classified.😅
So now he can impress them at the end of a rope…
I remember during Vietnam war young kids do not want war. To win, Joe Biden needs a war. First time he hided in the basement and now will win by hiding in the bunker.
Needs decades in prison. This puts USA in a awkward position.
What an ageist remark coming from Chuck Todd. Many 21 year olds and under work in nuclear subs, work in IT in different branches of government. To equate a rental company age policy to those trained and working in secure services is not even relevant.
at least he got the truth out about the war with Russia, and how we are losing the war with Russia and we have troops there.
Is he getting a trophy by Congress. Huh
Unfortunately he might 😠
For a strange reason I don’t buy this storyline
Funny they found him but can’t find Hunter Biden laptop and Biden family making money from Ukraine and China and now Assange Snowden and this guy are criminals what about Biden Obama Trump Desantis Clinton Clinton’s sold uranium to Russia that why Russia has more nuclear weapons than America Obama jailed more journalist than any other President and Obamacare is really Romney care which Romney thought up in Massachusetts good for insurance companies and drug activists in Chicago call Obama the black Regan or bomber Obama
Amazes me that such a young person in the National Guard had information like that. What was the purpose of his access? Crazy!
I don’t understand how the media were able to identify him as right wing. Because his family is patriotic? Based on that logic anytime we have a serial killer or mass shooter perhaps we need to put the whole family under watch.
Well he’s really going to impress them serving time in Federal Poky.
I find it strange how they found this guy super quick but the person who leaked the supreme court decision early somehow remains at large.
Soy boy.. Did he have Cheeto dust on him too?
You do the crime, you do the TIME
This is what happens when you have militia terrorists, disguised as patriots and servicemen. Chairborne d-head needs to see a noose, doesn’t matter his age. Old enough to be recruited, old enough to serve real time for his crime. People really don’t want to use the word, traitor.
But they couldn’t locate the 2 trillion dollars that went missing on 9/10/01
Death penalty
Look into his ties with right wing white nationalist groups. They have infiltrated the arm forces and law enforcement
These days It’s ashamed how quickly some are willing to sell out their own country. Republicans are defending him. What has happened?
Civil War
So this kid gets handcuffed right away. What about 45? How is that any different?
Fort living room got access ? They dont trust each others in the sandbox but got a hold of a topsecret documents 😂
I don’t know. I seen the the fresh video the other day showing him getting arrested. Then, they were showing a blurred out interview with one of the guys friends talking all about him and the situation. Like they already had it ready to go. It just struck me as odd. In the sense that it feels like a planned leak to justify an increase of security measures which could limit more of our freedoms…….
So just an imbecile !
I m not too worry about this ..
They have many plans lol…
You can’t be president until you’re 35.
I can’t imagine how it could have happened. Well, it is important that there be an investigation and that all those responsible be punished. There was nothing special in these documents, the U.S., unlike Russia, does not try to influence elections in other countries
It was also mistake of our government that they allowed him to work on them. We have to choose worker much better
*Nope*
The child at 21 drones
National gaurd of what weather event Gov of MA?
Secret service of Kennedy Onassis?
Yes CAPE COD
No
Can’t believe chick Todd is still working. He’s so bad.
Well he might just have “impressed” other countries in the process.
And he will be prisoned for that impression. Good job
Military recruitment department not only needs to do background check. They should also do IQ test.
Exactly. I support you in 100%
He is a so stupid person. I couldn’t believe in it
Showed the world U.S.A’s true face once and for all
He is a stupid young boy who wanted to impress someone. Now he will be judged and get proper punishment
Thug! Worthless, useless trash. Just needs to be dumped. Nothing more.
When you can’t trust the FBI or the justice department or fake News what can you believe anymore ?
a whistle-blower and a leaker are not the same and should not be treated the same. this guy shouldn’t be protected from any legal action and the new York times should be proud they helped catch him.
he is not snowden, he was not calling out the government, he is a conspiracy nutter who wanted to impress discord trolls and potentially endangered people or operations to do so
This latest fiasco shows the World how thick Americans can be!
Throw the book at him. I don’t want to hear the judge say “he reminds me of myself”, “he has his whole life ahead of him”, “it was a simple mistake”, “boys will be boys” or any crap that you don’t say when a young black man is on trial.
Traitor, Treason. 15 years lockup. Amen 🙏.
Its not the system, its the bad actor.
Another terrorist is born…… strait to the slammer 😢😮😅😊😂
Our democrat ran government is a fkn joke. Has been for the past 20+ years and only gets worse w Biden
Um, there’s a huge difference between this case and the Snowden case. Teixeira wanted to impress his friends (who were teenagers) and Snowden was trying to alert the American people about illegal spying activity by the govt on citizens. HUGE difference.
War Pigs have the power…..
Will GOP call for a firing squad? 🤔
Salute an American hero being arrested
FYI, the Fall of the Roman Empire also came form within.
Click bait journalism! Do your research! 🙄 With clearance, of course you can print! You’re trained to keep it in a classified folder, lock it up and NOT remove it. No, they don’t search everyone every day. That’s ludicrous! Most people with clearance are both honest and federal contractors to “keep government small.” Most traitors have been contractors and there are still very few. UGH!
This Courtney lady stumbles to much with her words.
ALL of you are missing the important part… WE ARE AT WAR! This punk himself doesn’t matter!
America always is at war…
@Louis Staut Look at what was leaked, not who did it.
Who is the criminal here ? Shoot the pianist….
Its a setup
This is a police/surveillence state the US is not free. Riot.
He is DONE FOR.
How old is the knob speaking?
Love how the government doesn’t take any responsibility for the leak or the lies they have been keeping it from us . How about why a young kid has such access too this material . 😢
It’s never the governments fault blame a 21 year old who they gave the keys to the car . It’s the systems fault
Timothy McVeigh gone too soon.
They should implement document level security. Only people with access should be able to decrypt the document and use it.
Lies. American government saw how much of a threat he was to the biden administration and how they are non stop lying to us and he tried to save us but making it look like hes some horrible guy. But in reality hes one of the biggest patriots of all time. He litterally tried to save the american people not the corrupt american government
Don’t blame young people… 💯…. y’all old heads just dumb 💯… let man go and hire them.. and pay them because they’re alot smarter then you old heads … Apparently 😊💯
Well now he gets to go to jail
I have the pics I have the flash drives where u tryd to hide the Americans money from us I also know a lot of other things about our corrupt government and have been trying to contact news and also army we r in trouble in Illinois and I have not heard from one person
My name is Jessica Lynn Maldonado and I want to speak for we the people on what I have found out about our corrupted government
Look at what was leaked, not who did it.
https://youtu.be/JRmlcEBAiIs
The story’s less about this young patriot being arrested and more about how the government is allowed to lie to you. That’s the real story here wake up people.
Isn’t the question why it took a leak to know we have boots on the ground in Ukrainian? The lies are the issue
Fake news more interested in the kid than the contents of the leak. Which, btw prove we are being lied to. Enjoy