Prosecutors are arguing that the Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media should remain in jail during the course of his legal case, in part, because he has a history of violent threats and possessed an "arsenal of weapons."

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.

  • 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.