What else should we expect from a nation that calls itself "The Land Of The Free" whilst having 5% of the world population and 25% of the world's prisoner population?
Jack Teixeira arrested for revealing that NATO Special Forces are fighting on the frontlines against Russian Troops in Ukraine and that the US spies on its allies.
By Wyatt Reed: Since
documents began to surface last week which reveal damning information
about the US role in Ukraine and the espionage it conducts on its
ostensible allies, questions have lingered about the identity and
motives of the person responsible – and a suspect has finally been
unveiled.
Teixeira
is likely to be charged with violating the Espionage Act as Attorney
General Merrick Garland earlier indicated that the service member was
arrested over the alleged “unauthorized removal, retention and
transmission of classified national defense information.”
An initial court appearance for Teixeira is scheduled for Friday at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
With
the arrest, media focus has quickly shifted from the fallout
surrounding the leaked materials – which indicated that US officials
privately acknowledge the Kiev regime has little hope of victory, and
that NATO special forces are fighting on the frontlines against Russian
troops – to the identity of the alleged leaker.
Teixeira,
a nearly four-year member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was
reportedly assigned to manage and troubleshoot computers and
communications systems for the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air Base,
and comes from a military family.
Jack Teixeira identified as suspected leaker of US intel docs
A
spokesman for the Pentagon reportedly defended the DoD’s major
intelligence breach by saying “we entrust our members with a lot of
responsibility at a very early age.”
But
regardless of his relative youth, it remains unclear why an enlisted
airman, who hadn’t yet even reached officer status, would have access to
high-level documents containing intelligence apparently compiled by the
Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
According
to widely-circulated accounts by the Washington Post and New York
Times, who effectively honed in on the alleged leaker's identity on
those agencies’ behalf, Teixeira began leaking photos of
highly-sensitive documents to a group of 20 to 30 of his mostly-younger
friends online after they grew bored of reading mere transcriptions.
The Times quickly insisted
that “Airman Teixeira was no whistle-blower,” seizing on an alleged
video which apparently shows the young airman yelling racial and
antisemitic slurs.
But there are apparently signs that Teixeira had serious problems with the government he served.
According to the Washington Post, he told
members of his group online that the US government “knew in advance
that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage” at a
supermarket frequented by Black shoppers in Buffalo in May 2022, but
“let the killings proceed so they could argue for increased funding.”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson pushed back on Teixeira’s behalf in a Thursday night monologue.
“So this 21-year-old Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts is ‘not a whistleblower,’“ mocked the popular conservative commentator.
“He
revealed the crimes, therefore he’s the criminal,” Carlson explained,
sardonically, adding, “that’s how Washington works: telling the truth is
the only real sin.”