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Classified Documents Leak: To What End?
When the news broke last week about a 21-year-old National Guard member allegedly leaking classified documents — not just leaking but posting to something called a chat app for months, I was flabbergasted. Something didn’t smell right. How could such a thing happen? When I went to work for DoD in Northern California, I had a secret security clearance. When I went to work at Peterson AFB, Air Force Space Command NORAD (after I became a federal whistleblower and was transferred to contracting) a serious background investigation was done to elevate my clearance. One of my contracts was inside Cheyenne Mountain (Colorado Springs, CO) and a few at another Air Base which required I had a Retina scan in order to get on the base every visit as some of the R & D for Reagan’s "Star Wars" Initiative was housed there. I do know a bit about security clearances. Leaker of classified US intelligence works on military base, posted the documents on Discord: report, April 13, 2023 — "The person behind a major leak of secret U.S. intelligence documents is reportedly a man in his 20s who worked on a military base and shared the classified information on the chat app Discord. "The details were revealed in an explosive new report from the Washington Post on Wednesday. The outlet reportedly spoke to a fellow member of the chat group the leaker ran on Discord. The Post’s teenage source claimed he knew the leaker’s real name and where he lived but said he would not help authorities locate him. "The source told the Post that the leaker ran a Discord group called "Thug Shaker Central," and identified himself only as "OG." Interesting piece. Related: Jack Teixeira: 2023-04-17 Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets Jack Teixeira: 2023-04-16 'Idealism and Infantilism.' Who divulged US secrets Jack Teixeira: 2023-04-15 John Brennan sez MTG not fit to hold public office Posted by: Besoeker 2023-04-18 |
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