Pentagon leaker 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman First Class Jack Teixeira was identified and promptly arrested by heavily armed FBI agents at his home in North Dinghton, about 46 miles south of Boston. Teixeira worked at the Otis Cape Cod Air National Guard base in Cautamet, Massachusetts. When the story leaked Friday, April 7 on the Internet Forum “Discord,” it stunned the Pentagon with the seriousness of the security breach of Top Secret files, primarily on the Ukraine War. When Pentagon officials read the files, reported on Discord, it embarrassed the White House, painting a very different picture of the Ukraine War as reported in the U.S. press. When it comes to Ukraine, everything looks rosy, blinding the rubbish put out by the White House and Pentagon, all pointing to Ukraine’s great battlefield success against the Russian Federation.
Pentagon officials couldn’t figure out how a lowly Air National Guardsman gained access to Top Secret files, showing the Pentagon has a lot of explaining to do about protecting U.S. secrets. If Teixeira could gain access to such highly secret files, then others could also have the same access. FBI tactical agents surrounded Texeira’s Dinghton home, arresting him in shorts-and-tee-shirt, showing the casual manner in which Teixeira operated before his arrest today, Teixeira freely uploaded Top Secret documents on Discord and other Internet sites. Teixeira will be arraigned April 14 before a U.S. District Court judge on illegally removing classified government files then posting them on the Internet. “FBI agents took Teixeira into custody earlier this afternoon without incident, said 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland who initiated a DOJ investigation into Pentagon leaks.
President Joe Biden minimized the damage to U.S. national security, saying he wasn’t sure that anything released to the public would impact operations in Ukraine. But the leaked files posted on Discord and other Internet sites gave contradictory information about the Ukraine War, revealing for all to see that the Ukraine War wasn’t making the progress against the Russian Federation often sited by the White House and conveyed to the mainstream press. Pentagon officials did not dispute authenticity of the leaked files, essentially saying Ukraine could not meet its military objectives to oust the Russian army from Ukraine anytime soon. So, however Teixeira got the Pentagon intel, he felt compelled to expose the Pentagon’s propaganda about the Ukraine War, something the U.S. press doesn’t question until now. Now that the cat is out of the bag, what’s Biden going to say?
Media reports focus only on how Teixeira could have had access to such Top Secret Pentagon files, considering he was low-man on the totem pole serving at the bottom of the Air National Guard’s cyber security transport systems hierarch for which he earned a medial. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said everybody with security clearance signs a non-disclosure agreement, attesting to Teixeira’s obvious crimes. But apart from what Teixeira oversaw a private chat group on Discord, a Website used to debate the Ukraine War among other things. Ryder said the leaks by Teixeira “was a deliberate criminal act,” reminiscent of Booz Allen Hamilton leaker/whistleblower Edward Snowden, who fled his lavish Honolulu home June 9, 2013 for Hong Kong, then fleeing the CIA to Moscow June 23, 2013. Teixeira wasn’t that clever breaching his non-disclosure agreement, arrested six days later.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, 69, said after Teixeira’s security breach, he’s going to put new regulations in place to prevent another incident. Yet Austin has been one of the White House’s biggest smoke blowers on the Ukraine War, telling an audience April 26, 2022 in Ramstein, Germany that the aim of the U.S. mission in Ukraine was to degrade the Russian army to the point it could no longer wage war. If that’s not a declaration of War on the Kremlin, then what is? Austin mirrored Biden March 26, 2022 in Warsaw Poland, telling the press that 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin should no longer stay in power. So, when it comes to Biden’s proxy war using Ukrainian troops to topple the Russian Federation, he’s got the U.S. into an unending conflict, regarded as a stalemate by many military experts. Yet Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky continue the fight.
Coming from a military background, what could have been Teixeira’s motive for leaking the Pentagon’s Top Secret files on the Ukraine War? White House and Pentagon officials would like to muzzle Teixeira but he’s made his statement about the real state of the Ukraine War. Zelensky asks for more cash-and-lethal weapons, promising to vanquish the Russian army but with little or no prospects of succeeding. Leaked files show the Pentagon, led by old Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen
Mark Miley, who said Ukraine cannot achieve its objectives ousting Russia in 2023. When it comes to the Pentagon’s secret files, it looks like Ukraine has depleted stockpiles of missiles and other munitions, requiring more U.S. war materiel. If there’s any motive in Teixeira’s leaks, he’s trying to tell the American pulic that the Ukraine War hasn’t gone well for the U.S. and Ukraine.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
