(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Teixeira classified leaks story keeps getting worse [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-21 From The NY Times: Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war. The Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers had been posting sensitive information months earlier than previously known and to a much larger chat group, according to online postings reviewed by The New York Times. In February 2022, soon after the invasion of Ukraine, a user profile matching that of Airman Jack Teixeira began posting secret intelligence on the Russian war effort on a previously undisclosed chat group on Discord, a social media platform popular among gamers. The chat group contained about 600 members. The case against Airman Teixeira, 21, who was arrested on April 13, pertains to the leaking of classified documents on another Discord group of about 50 members, called Thug Shaker Central. There, he began posting sensitive information in October 2022, members of the group told The Times. His job as an information technology specialist at an Air Force base in Massachusetts gave him top secret clearance. It is not clear whether authorities are aware of the classified material posted on this additional Discord chat group. emphasis added The link should allow access through the paywall at the Times. The new details are staggering. It appears the first leak came less than 48 hours into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Saw a pentagon report saying that ⅓rd of the force is being used to invade,” the user wrote. Apparently eager to impress others in the group who questioned his analysis, he said: “I have a little more than open source info. Perks of being in a USAF intel unit,” referring to the United States Air Force. Some of the intelligence posted appeared to foretell battlefield developments. On March 27, 2022, he shared classified information about the Russian pullback from Kyiv, information he said he “found on an NSA site.” Read The Whole Thing. There is no excuse that can help this kid now, not even stupidity. And that’s not the worst of it. Everyone who ever signed off on Airman Teixeira needs to be put through the wringer, and also grilled about anyone else who might be a problem. The command structure above him is toast. The entire enlistment, selection, screening, and training process needs to be reviewed and corrected; it obviously failed at multiple points. The base where he was stationed has been relieved of its intelligence mission. Via the Boston Globe: The Air Force said Tuesday that it has stripped a Cape Cod Air National Guard unit of its intelligence mission after one of its members, Airman Jack D. Teixeira, was accused in federal court of leaking a trove of classified documents online in a massive national security breach. The 102nd Intelligence Wing is “not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission. The mission has been temporarily reassigned to other organizations within the Air Force,” the Air Force said in a statement, which was issued shortly after Secretary Frank Kendall said at a congressional hearing that he has directed his inspector general to assess the Cape Cod unit to determine “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong.” It doesn’t stop there. Also from the Globe: Beyond the actions against the Cape Cod intelligence unit, located at Otis Air National Guard Base, the Air Force is conducting “a security-focused stand down” at each of its intelligence units over the next month to “reassess our security posture and procedures, validate the need to know for each person’s access, and emphasize to all Airmen and Guardians the responsibility we are entrusted with to safeguard this information and to enforce and improve our security requirements.” I expect the other airmen in his unit are ready to kill him at this point. I expect everyone who has access to classified material is going to curse Teixiera as the review process works out and new protocols are instituted. This is a major institutional failure. I’m guessing the only thing that kept this from being detected earlier is that there’s just so much information flooding the Internet at any given time, it was lost in the crowd. Not any more. Jeebus! I wonder if Marjorie Taylor Greene is still defending Teixeira as a victim of the Biden regime; even Lindsey Graham can’t swallow that. Reporting at The NY Times: Glenn Thrush, Ishaan Jhaveri and Riley Mellen contributed reporting. Malachy Browne is a senior story producer on the Visual Investigations team. His work has received four Emmys, and he shared in a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for reporting that showed Russian culpability in bombing hospitals in Syria. @malachybrowne • Facebook Julian E. Barnes is a national security reporter based in Washington, covering the intelligence agencies. 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