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| 'Idealism and Infantilism.' Who divulged US secrets |
| 2023-04-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The FBI has revealed the name of a suspect in the disclosure of secret Pentagon documents. It is alleged that behind the largest leak of military-strategic data in the last ten years is a young man who has not served in the US National Guard for more than three years. The comic of the situation is given by the fact that the main accomplice in the large-scale "drain" was a schoolboy, and the first publication took place in the game chat. What is it, negligence in the US Department of Defense or a disguised stuffing of "disinformation"? Air National Guard soldier Jack Teixeira , who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of "leaking" hundreds of photos of top secret Pentagon documents, was charged on April 14. Teixeira, 21, is charged with "withdrawal and transfer to third parties" of data constituting a state secret. The published documents include information about the US plans for Ukraine and the state of affairs in the Ukrainian army. Initially, the US Department of Defense data was “leaked” to the Discord platform, popular among schoolchildren and gamers who love computer games. On other large servers, information was posted by a user with the nickname Lucca. As the ABC channel found out , a schoolboy was hiding behind him - "hyperactive, who constantly wants to tell everyone everything." The game chat on Discord for 20-30 people, which was administered by Jack Teixeira, is called Thug Shaker Central (Thug means "bandit, thug"). Despite the formidable name, the group consisted mainly of children and teenagers, according to The New York Times, which, in fact, published the name of Teixeira. “This guy was a Christian, an opponent of the war, he just wanted to let his friends know what was happening,” one of the site’s participants, a 17-year-old schoolboy, said about Jack. If the official version voiced by the FBI is true, then hundreds of Department of Defense documents classified as “top secret” were stolen by a young officer who served "a week without a year." Teixeira only in 2021 began serving in the 102nd Reconnaissance Wing (102 IW) of the Massachusetts National Guard. But children have played a key role in leaking national security data. The picture that the American media painted raised a lot of questions - from doubts about the quality of storage and protection of secret data in the United States to suspicions about whether Teixeira's "feat" was deliberately throwing a large amount of fakes into the public space. SERGEANT AT THE GATES OF "PURGATORY" In his "intelligence wing" of the Massachusetts National Guard (which, like the national guards of other states, is an army reserve - in this case, the US Air Force reserve), Jack Teixeira was responsible for troubleshooting computers and communication systems. Even as a “relatively inexperienced military man,” he had access to data through the US Department of Defense computer network known as the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS), a US official familiar with the case explained. In his opinion, access to JWICS allowed Teixeira to read and possibly print secret documents. Despite his low rank, Teixeira really, for a number of reasons, could easily get access to secret documents, Lieutenant General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, retired Leonid Reshetnikov, told REGNUM . "Since everything is now done through electronic systems, certain people sit on them." An employee like Teixeira can be a lieutenant, a sergeant, or anyone. There are not many such people, but they exist, and each of them has real access to something. As I understand it, having this access, you can access information on all networks and information that is not directly controlled, but you can access it." Perhaps the young military man was "sitting" on "a stream of raw information that did not reach the“ purgatory," to the analytical department, which checks the information, classifies, works out, checks for secrecy, for relevance and reliability,” the interlocutor noted . After verification, the information is either reported to departments and governing structures, or it is buried in a "mass grave," the expert explained. "Perhaps, as an electronic intelligence officer, Teixeira had access to read or ensure the operation of the entire system," Reshetnikov added. MORE LIKE SLOPPINESS The array of documents published by Teixera is "a stream that did not enter the think tank," which means that we are not talking about a deliberate stuffing in order to misinform Russia or another actual adversary, Reshetnikov believes. If we were talking about "disinformation" (or about dropping information from a level higher than Tersheira (and this could be assumed, given the internal political struggle in the United States on the eve of the presidential election), then already processed documents would be "merged," "already prepared for publication and more "downhole", says the ex-employee of the Russian foreign intelligence. It is unlikely that this was a deliberate "leak", calculated, for example, to misinform Moscow or Beijing, agrees Major General of the FSB in the reserve, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Mikhailov. "Not a single state structure can and will not accept publications on foreign sites on faith," Mikhailov told REGNUM news agency. The Russian leadership has data from its own sources, which, by definition, are cross-checked and compared with other sources, the source stressed. The scandal that broke out makes one suspect that "there is an element of slovenliness here," Mikhailov noted. "If Teixeira downloaded something, then there is necessarily criminal negligence on the part of officials who did not ensure the protection of information," the source emphasized. "Teixeira acted out of conviction, as did Edward Snowden, as did Julian Assange. We forget that ideological and even idealistic views are at work here. Teixeira decided to express his attitude. Here is a case of displaying one’s political views and, at the same time, infantilism, misunderstanding that they can figure you out," said Lieutenant General Reshetnikov. "INTERESTED IN WEAPONS AND DOUBTS THE FUTURE OF AMERICA” As mentioned above, one of the "colleagues" on the game chat in Discord described Teixeira as a Christian and an opponent of the war. Another friend in an interview with the American media described the officer as a patriot, a devout Catholic and a libertarian (supporter of a free economy and minimal government intervention in public life), who is interested in weapons and doubts the future of America. According to a friend, he met Teixeira in absentia before 2020 on a Discord server focused mainly on guns and libertarian politics, and became close due to their shared interest in Glocks and Catholicism. Later, the man joined a new Discord server founded by Teixeira called Thug Shaker Central, which became the main meeting place for a group of about 20 people. In real life, Teixeira was "a pretty normal guy," said a friend who ended up getting to know Teixeira personally. The man also recalled that Teixeira began sharing classified documents on a Discord server around February 2022, with the start of a Russian sting operation in Ukraine, which he viewed as a "disheartening" battle between "two countries that should have more in common, rather than stay apart " . The exchange of secret documents was intended "to enlighten people whom he considered his friends and who could be trusted", free from propaganda. Server members agreed never to share documents outside of it, as they could harm US interests. Recent claims by other members of the server that some of its members were Russians and Ukrainians were "pure fiction," the source said. According to him, one of the participants, posing as a "Russian naval officer", actually lived in Kentucky, and was eventually blocked from the server. Another member of Thug Shaker Central ended up sharing the documents on another server, which led to them being circulated online. April 15, 2023 Alexander Tishchenko |
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