In comments cited in court filings late Wednesday night, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, spoke of wanting to “kill a [expletive] ton of people” because it would be “culling the weak minded,” and discussed wanting to make a minivan into an “assassination van.”

The american war machine only recruits the best bloodthirsty people.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    What I want to know is how this 21 year old kid in the national guard supposedly had access to all these documents in the first place.

    Unless he was being given them for you know, "reasons".

    • CommCat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The most believable scenario that I read for an intentional leak was to prepare the public of a Ukrainian failure in it's upcoming counteroffensive and eventual peace negotiations.

      • JuryNullification [he/him]
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        It’s easy to get a clearance as an 18 year old. You have no criminal or credit history, which are the primary factors in whether or not you pass the background checks. They don’t do a whole ideological exams, just make sure you’re not a gommulist

      • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I thought intelligence now consisted largely of the nerdy children of affluent liberals.

    • vivamatapacos [comrade/them]
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      The documents he had access to (the ones that he leaked onto his discord) were not raw intelligence. They were completed reports that were meant for being shared amongst the intelligence community on a wikipedia-like searchable database/news aggregator, available for view by just about anyone with his level of clearance (and access to that particular classified intranet). He simply needed to log onto any machine on that intranet (he was a network admin for an intel unit, every desk in every office likely has a machine that meets the criteria) and navigate to Intellipedia and just start perusing interesting articles. Nothing out of the ordinary doing that, the whole point is to have this sort of information easily accessible for intelligence sharing. Of course, since you are not supposed to take any of these materials outside of a secure area, there are systems in place to make it very easy to track who accessed what, who printed what, etc. Access to the really interesting stuff is generally more stringent and compartmentalized and requires things like polygraph exams (for a 3-letter, which im guessing this dude's unit was strictly dealing with USAF intelligence). For the really really interesting stuff, it is gatekept behind what are called Special Access Programs that this dumbass would not have met the criteria for (being read onto an SAP requires even more invasive involvement of Uncle Sam into your life and background).

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Special Access Programs that this dumbass would not have met the criteria for (being read onto an SAP requires even more invasive involvement of Uncle Sam into your life and background).

        Is this where the alien tech secrets and where Osama Bin Laden is still alive and hiding is?