Secret Papers
2023-06-16 08:24:04 UTC
No homosexual can ever be trusted. They should all be executed as
soon as they announce their disgusting behavior. The Air Farce
officers who knew about this should be executed for dereliction of
duty.
WASHINGTON A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Jack Teixeira, asoon as they announce their disgusting behavior. The Air Farce
officers who knew about this should be executed for dereliction of
duty.
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who posted dozens of secret
intelligence reports and other sensitive documents on a social media
server, on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national
defense information.
The filing of criminal charges in Boston federal court against Airman
Teixeira, 21, comes about two months after F.B.I. agents arrested him at
his home in North Dighton, Mass., and paves the way for a trial stemming
from one of the most damaging national security leaks in recent history.
If convicted, he could face up to 60 years in prison.
The evidence presented in the 10-page indictment represents a
distillation of the immense trove of secrets Airman Teixeira is accused
of taking from computers at an intelligence unit at the Cape Cod air
base and sharing with online friends he was hoping to impress in chat
groups on Discord, a social media platform popular with gamers. But it
was not immediately clear how many of the vaguely described incidents
that underlie the charges had been previously disclosed and which ones
were being made public for the first time.
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Airman Teixeiras disclosures exposing secrets of the United States,
its allies and its adversaries have bared rifts between the United
States and its allies and given Russia information about
intelligence-gathering methods, as news organizations have divulged some
of the material. And Justice Department lawyers have said the extent of
the information he leaked far exceeds what has been publicly
disclosed.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland accused Airman Teixeira on Thursday
of violating his oath to safeguard national security and said the
leaking of the material was likely to have caused exceptionally grave
damage to national security.
Airman Teixeiras lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
The indictment follows a preliminary criminal complaint, which detailed
how Airman Teixeira, a young tech worker who had obtained a high-level
security clearance, got away for months with posting classified
information online under the noses of his Air Force superiors before
being caught. The evidence in the indictment represents a refinement of
the potential charges laid out in that complaint.
The indictment said Airman Teixeira mishandled documents including a
report on the hacking of an unnamed U.S. companys accounts by a
foreign adversary, information about the provision and delivery of
military equipment to Ukraine and a highly sensitive report on Russian
and Ukrainian troop movements that might have compromised classified
sources and methods. Other documents included details of a foreign plot
to target U.S. troops abroad that described where and how an assault
might take place, the indictment said.
Materials posted by Airman Teixeira included files that bore some of the
most highly restricted classification markings, including sensitive
compartmentalized information that could be stored and reviewed only in
protected facility.
The unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified
information jeopardizes our nations security, Joshua S. Levy, the
acting U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, said in a statement on Thursday.
Individuals granted access to classified materials have a fundamental
duty to safeguard the information for the safety of the United States,
our active service members, its citizens and its allies.
Airman Teixeira has remained in federal custody after prosecutors
presented evidence that he had a history of making violent and racist
threats, had access to an arsenal of weapons and represented a risk of
sharing sensitive information with foreign countries.
The most detailed accounts of his behavior came to light in an memo
filed by the Justice Departments national security division in arguing
for his indefinite detention in April.
The memo claimed that Airman Teixeira repeatedly tried to obstruct
federal investigators and might still have information that would be of
tremendous value to hostile nation-states.
Prosecutors pointedly questioned Airman Teixeiras overall state of
mind, disclosing that he was suspended from high school in 2018 for
alarming comments about the use of Molotov cocktails and other weapons,
and trawled the internet for information about mass shootings. He
engaged in regular discussions about violence and murder on Discord,
the filing said, and he surrounded his bed at his parents house with
firearms and tactical gear.
The Justice Department has also documented a series of missteps by the
airmans superiors.
Air Force officials caught Airman Teixeira taking notes and conducting
deep-dive searches for classified material months before he was charged
with leaking a vast trove of government secrets, but did not remove him
from his job, according to previous filings in the case.
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