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. "
Washington Post keeps pushing the "patriotic" crap. At least they finally changed the headline.
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."