Yikes, watching people working hard to spin Jack Teixeira as a heroic, young, patriotic, brave whistleblower is something else.
The Affidavit in support of the Criminal Complaint:
https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/04/affid.pdf
This went on for months. The first documents were posted online in December 2022.
The first leaks were documents he'd written out and typed by hand. The latter ones were scans of the actual documents.
"the individual using the Subject
Username explained that he had become concerned that he may be discovered making the
transcriptions of text in the workplace, so he began taking the documents to his residence and photographing them."
He was using his security clearance to monitor the investigation into his crimes.
"Accordingly, there is reason to believe that TEIXEIRA was searching for classified reporting regarding the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the identity of the individual who
transmitted classified national defense information, to include the Government Document. "
Why the hell is this buried way down in the article? At this point, the article had dropped the "patriot" word to describe him four times.
Had I posted this thread on Twitter, I'd have been hammered by Pro-Russia trolls hailing this guy as a hero.
Thread update:
The FBI's complaint filed in this guy's case is really something.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.255930/gov.uscourts.mad.255930.19.8_2.pdf
Guardsman in leak case wanted to kill a ‘ton of people,’ prosecutors say
This is the line that chilled me:
"The friend said he met Teixeira before 2020 on a Discord server mainly focused on guns and libertarian politics, and bonded over their shared interest in Glock handguns and Catholicism."
@jjmacnab okay but of what country
@jjmacnab We appreciate you here!
@jjmacnab I'm so glad you've left that absurd, abusive site behind! 😊
@jjmacnab Nothing says "patriotic hero" quite like racist and antisemitic slurs. 😫
@jjmacnab he was the"leader" of an online group. I look forward to more arrests.
@jjmacnab https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/cumberland-county-news/fort-bragg-soldier-with-genocidal-goal-to-eliminate-minorities-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charge-us-attorney-says/amp/
Genocidal soldier who wanted to kill minorities around for Bragg sentenced.
CBS 17 local
I knew he crashed the gate but yeesh.
I have a lot of concerns. Wow
@jjmacnab Seems he had a pretty willing and likeminded audience.
@jjmacnab
He had quite the arsenal in his bedroom
How do the phrases "Ruby Ridge", "Waco" and "Oklahoma City" being posted anywhere (much less Discord) not immediately set off alarm klaxons deep in some three letter agency somewhere?
@jjmacnab some fucked up parenting, that so many of the ppl on that discord were supposedly underage...
@jjmacnab I had the exact same question. You've articulated it better than I could.
Washington Post keeps pushing the "patriotic" crap. At least they finally changed the headline.