The New York Times reported that the man accused of leaking classified information first began posting military secrets more than a year ago, which is far earlier than the government initially believed. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian has the latest updates.
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#Classified #Documents #Military
Just another of the many failures of Biden and his nut job administration.
Dude came from a wealthy family, was pretty much setup for a good life, but then he had to try to impress some edgelord kids in a chatroom so now his life is pretty much ruined. He’ll get a lot of attention in Prison from Bubba.
Racist to say babba..
As you talk about prison and accept Bill Gates Bill Clinton and a late night TV host will never go to jail for molesting on a island.
Whistleblowers are heros.
Stop being confused. Literally doing the world a favor with his leaks.
I used to be a law enforcement guy before. In my job, if you saw a colleague commit a crime and never reported you are charged as guilty as the colleague . Why aren’t the members of that group who knew this and never said anything needed to be guilty of possession of classified documents
The kid has supervisors as well who are responsible for keeping track of his work. Whoever placed him in that position and those supervisors need lots of investigation as well.
I think we are about to dig up some really smelly stuff. But maybe it will reveal enough rot that officials have to actually fix the root problem and not just continue to sweep it under the rug.
@M C Smith Lol, you have faith in our government. You must be new here!
@M C Smith Oh it’s smelly all right! Our military is entrenched with Russian sympathizers and assets! You’ll see
@Melody You have faith in trump? 🤦♂️🤡
how does the blue line work? we all know how it works.
Let me guess…..
And Margie Traitor Gangrene, who is on the committee for homeland security, has praised and defended this guy! That is where America is right now!
He kinda looks creepy… is he going to become a woman like Bradley?👽
The military isn’t great with reading vibes and testing spirits before they take on personnel🤔
How many deaths are on this little sh*t’s hands?
Many.
Sounds like he’s trying to expose a little corruption
Huge failure of our intelligence agencies
This is Bull. Pentagon did it
And you say the FOX Fake News is broadcast directly into the barracks? Huh. Imagine that. Welp, let’s all just look the other way.
MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCE ☠️
THIS IS INTOLERABLE
People need to be fired!!
Ok. Then?
Death penalty.
Literally what the US Legal Code dictates is the punishment for this crime.
Anyone want to bet he is gonna transition into a female and get a free pass?
This is why Republicans don’t deserve citizenship. They don’t like our laws, they don’t like our country, they don’t like our citizens. They’re a danger to all of us.
It’s life in prison for this guy. Hope it was worth it.
The proper punishment for treason according to the US Legal Code is execution. In case you weren’t aware.
I’ma be honest what he did was real crazy, he definitely should get way more than 10 years cause nowadays he will most likely do half of 10 years if he’s good in prison but him putting America at risk he should definitely get way more than 10 years…
Technically the US legal code dictates that the punishment for treason is death.
Hes a hero. Whistleblowers EXPOSE THE TRUTH.
Accused is right because he is inoccent unless proven guilty. Is it wrong or right to disobey a law inorder to save life? Trump is also inoccent but Biden government and others like Lindsey Ghram rep. Our goverment is corrupt and this isnt reporting your taking his words out of context. I accuse you media of propaganda and false news.
A year ago😅 release him because they’re the idiots.
There lying
The algorithm of the military is a joke.
Well, stick a fork in him, he’s done.
Espionage do you know how much s*** you just told Russia and China and North Korea.
Wow NBC deleted my comment they’re all in on this Death by Firing squad
Military tactics should never be on mainstream or on the web for easy access. That’s why when world war 3 pop’s off first thing EMPs
Give the kid credit he made you all look dumb
And yet, he’s going to go to prison for a LONG TIME. I hope he doesn’t drop the soap too much. 😂
I bet he feels 😎 cool and popular now
Makes me wonder how many Chinese and Russian infiltrator work for the u.s. military. Because if a American citizen can we all can. United States your week. China’s laughing at you.
He new what he was doing in a time of war helping the enemy
Wow
Why aren’t y’all covering pro-Russian US Navy CPO Sarah Bils who helped him post and spread the documents to Russians?!
Yes but how many people above him are getting fired?
Exactly zero. Duh.
Fail all the way around.
His political beliefs…mega
He’s just being used as a scapegoat.
How? Fake news
Is this a firing squad sentence?
Yes, actually. Very literally. The punishment for treason is death.
A 21 year old kid made monkeys out of Biden’s DOD (not that it’s very hard to do, when the C-in-C is a buffoon himself).
But this MAGA traitor is a patriot… according to Marj Toilet Green and right wing nut jobs
Disgusted so many of the gun-crazy, Trump loving “patriots” admire that wealthy, murderous Putin.
DIABOLUS MORITUR AMEN+
Q
Sounds like he’s trying get the highest bidder to buy information to me.
The Almighty God has his light on every level of government including Congress
And now it appears he was looking for foreign countries to give this info. Showing off to his buddies, my aunt fanny! Yet despite this, Marjorie traitor Greene will still call this guy a hero!
18 U.S.C 2381 TREASON it’s time to uphold the law to the fullest extent which is death. We must set an example! How do you think the founding fathers would handle this.
As an example the government should give him the maximum time so that other potential young leakers can think twice before committing this high criminal espionage against his own Country. Willing to give docs to outsiders should have a penalty of death if found guilty on all charges. Those actions are damaging at every level worldwide.
Typical office process. The staff and the receptionist are the ones with access to reading and updating data.
Management only sees monthly reports on the data when they attend catered meetings.
More whistle blowers need to come forth to expose the corrupt swamp of DC and the crooked Biden administration
Good someone needs to tell us the truth the government lies daily!!! Get out of this fake war generated for the WEF !! Peasants and military rise up against the NWO government everywhere!!! Thanks to all the brave who tell the truth to the people!!! Funny how many of you trust the government lol🐑praying for you all!
Odd how state secrets & collusion lies can be sent on unofficial server, endangering America’s ppl and nobody gets changed
But someone exposing truths of criminality & harm ongoing_ and he’s charged and branded a treasonous person.
Espionage AND treason. There goes his whole life down the drain
This is one sick man. Who allowed him to have access to all this classified information. more people should be arrested
The people that knew he posted it and didn’t say anything
Sick? He exposed truths. Hes a whistleblower.
Youre the type of person that would have snitched on your jewish neighbors to the Nationalist Socialist Movement for 50$
Check yourself hes a hero for exposing.
Well, he told the truth and that is a main thing that democrats hate: truth. Democrats only want liars.
HE was trusted because he was white and middle class. that is how the Military thinks.
Ok, but what was contained in the leaks? Is the US fighting a ghost war against the Russians, using the Ukraine as a front? Without the consent of Congress? Why is no one reporting about that? That seems like the bigger crime. I’m an enrolled Native American tribal member, and one thing that we have learned is that when the government throws up a smokescreen, try not to get lost in it.
#landback #mmiw #endcolonization
ya ya……more than a year ago trump stole documents and he is free and has not been arrested
Prison forever please.
The leaker is a hero, and our government is completely incompetent.
And how about all those people who knew he was posting secrets? Real Americans aren’t they? What a sick as country this has turned into from trump to this trollip!
About the same time Russia decided to invade, knowing they would get constant intel from this trader
another patsy
Government terroristic information leaked?
LOCK HIM UP!!! PROTECT THE POLITICAL ELITES AND THEIR PLANS!!!!
Whatever he did against his oath of loyalty to the country, he’s meaningless to the country future. The reality is that America and Canada together won’t survive a super blast at 220km in space. We’d instantly fall into the dark age for good. Those cheap looking micro satellites would fall back to earth like a raining shower, or become those whacky orbital debris to crash on the others. We have been suppressing life of other peoples around this world for generations and we are cocky about it. Now, the Revelation has reviewed the consequences. Keep being cocky and laughing like a crazy bully until the final judgement day comes.
Who’s going to believe in this propaganda among with news outlets like Fox News, NPR, News Max, CNN and many more? I’m not. U.S. Government obviously is compromised, and are in the need of more strict anti-corrupt laws.
Watch Larry McDonald’s last interview. He was Conservative Democrat. This video willl be give you some insight why he “died.”
So the guy exposes our government’s corruption and he’s the bad guy? 🤦♂️
I’m glad that most people in that server (from what I heard) had the decency to ignore those leaked documents for so long. Makes you wonder how *he* of all people could have access.
You’ve heard of Strzok and Page, right?
The USA Military can no longer trust, White American’s raised in Fox TV viewing households.
Putting in danger his own peers, his own country.
You can’t expect less from a right wing Usual Suspect traitor.
Was he trans ?
God the comments are so stupid and bot filled
How the military can just let some young low level guy to have such high level sensitive access?! Obviously learned nothing after Edward Snowden…
This is treason of the highest order, Put him in his final resting place please. For this I believe he has forfeited his ability to live a long life. Make an example of him.
He betrayed our country. Put him in the ground
Fn republicans
Lol! Defund the government.
What secrets? Specifically what are the “secrets”? You know …content? Not going to “report” on that right? Instead this is what the media does now? Hunting down leakers & whistleblowers for a corrupt government. Nothing but a bunch of Agent Smiths in the media anymore. Same goes for the viewers commenting here I see. Absolutely pathetic & disgusting every one of you tools.
It’s unfortunate that because the US government and military leadership lie about Ukraine we have to depend on leaks for the real facts. This young man will likely face years in jail because he told the truth when US leaders would not.
This just solidifies how dumb he is! When you take the job you sign an NDA that you wont take classified material and share it with anyone. Guy is just plain dumb.
That just made discord look bad. But I love discord so I’ll use it and if Canada blocks it. Then it’s free VPN time. My friends around the world are more important to me than irl friends
Yeah about as real as “Chinese spy balloons” joke’s on you if you believe this.
In Moscow those Wagner Mercenaries would say. “Amateur, but thank you for your service”. How many of these bozos are out there right now?🤔
Thank you, Sir. Your a true inspiration to Russia 🇷🇺
Send him to Afghanistan 😂 alone
What a loser.
He learned by watching Joe. Sam Bankman Democrats favorite thief free on the streets!
One would think that Google would have caught on eventually. For they certainly know whenever I fart…
snowden must be proud
PROFANACIONES RESPALDAS POR EL ESTADO EN ESPAÑA.
They’re gonna use this as an excuse to monitor ALL American citizens, even more than they already do.
😂😂😂really??
Definition of a traitor
Sounds like a spy.
They found even more classified info in his garage.
If this was a different administration this man would be called a whistleblower. They are mad because it exposes the lies about the Russia and Ukraine war.
NBC IS A STATE RUN MEDIA AND PROPAGANDA
Hey you want to know something awesome we just dumped another 80 terabytes of classified documents on the internet so while they have someone they think is their suspect in custody we’re still having fun on the internet b**** and none of you were going to do a f****** thing about it