The media obsession in vilifying Jack Texeira for “leaking” TOP SECRET and SECRET documents and judging him guilty without any benefit of doubt, is another symptom of the authoritarian fever that grips many inhabitants of the United States.
This by Larry Johnson on thegatewaypundit.com.
Again, We the People are encouraged to forget the first amendment and digest this tripe. The apparent goal is to keep us in the dark and have us implicitly trust the Government to feed us what we need to know.
Before you join the mob eager to lynch the [young man], let me share what some of my friends who are veterans of the CIA and the Air Force have said about this affair in the past few days.
Both men say that the story and alleged facts smell to high heaven.
One longtime buddy, a veteran of the CIA, still provides consulting services to the U.S. Government and holds the same high clearances that he had prior to his retirement. He is an experienced operations officer. He has recruited foreigners to spy on behalf of the United States, managed highly classified programs and planned and executed many covert actions. In other words, he is no desk jockey.
We started working together 18 years ago in providing training support to a variety of military commands by writing and executing military exercises. All of our work was conducted in a SCIF and we had the clearances that gave us access to TOP SECRET, COMPARTMENTED INTELLIGENCE. I stopped doing that work five years ago but he has continued on.
During our 18 years of working on these highly classified exercises we have never seen a E3 (i.e., an Airman First Class) anywhere in the SCIF. The enlisted personnel who worked on these TOP SECRET exercises were at least a Staff Sergeant (E5). So what is a lowly E3 doing in a SCIF with TOP SECRET material and no supervision?
That is the first red flag.
A second red flag is the partial copy of the CIA Operations Center Intelligence Report.
Both of us have had access to CIA systems available on the military servers and we have never seen the CIA Ops Center report on any of those systems. Never.
How did this 21-year-old E3 get his hands on that? This is an impossibility in a controlled environment.
I was chatting today with another friend. He’s of more recent vintage.
I discovered he is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and that his last job with the Air Force was the inspection, certification and monitoring of Air Force SCIFs. Wow! Talk about serendipity. I asked him what he thought of the story the media is hard selling about the 21 year old with a trove of TS leaked documents?
He stated:
It does not make sense.
He made the same points as my CIA buddy—how does a 21-year-old E3 have this kind of access? My retired Colonel [friend] never saw it during his career.
He explained:
At most, kids this age, might have a SECRET clearance.
He also made the same observation that I raised in my previous piece on this incident—[click HERE to view previous article]—where the hell was this airman’s chain of command?
A lowly E3 is not going to have unfettered access to a SCIF and will always have at least one senior commander (NCO or Officer) present to tell him what to do and to monitor his work.
Additionally, much is askew with the media story being presented to the World about this young E3 who posted the leak on the gamer chat board.
The documents are not randomly selected. If the intent was to post classified information in order to impress a bunch of teenage gamers then why is the bulk of the material only about the war in Ukraine?
Finally, according to the Washington Post, there are 300 documents. Really? Where are they?
I have been able to find only roughly 18 documents. Have any of you seen the 100 pages that the media insists were posted to the web?
This apparent discrepancy alone raises a third red flag.
And a fourth red flag: Why was the Washington Post allowed to read/see 300 highly classified documents? The Post reporters do not hold security clearances. But We the People are to believe their access to these documents is okay.
Needless to say, alarms are going off and multiple red flags are flying.
Final observation by Larry Johnson:
One of the major revelations from this leaking incident is that most of the press in the United States have rejected the fundamental mission of the media—expose truths the Government wants to hide from the public.
What a volte face!! Fifty years ago the New York Times and the Washington Post led the way in defying the Nixon Adminstration’s effort to quash the publication of the highly classified Pentagon Papers.
Those documents revealed that the U.S. Government, under both Republican and Democrat Presidents, lied to the American public about the war in Vietnam.
And today? [We are to believe] those two media outlets [are] enthusiastically helping the U.S. Government identify the leaker and smear him in the process. [Another red flag. And] so much for the viability of the First Amendment.
Final thoughts: At least one question remains unasked: Is this another tool of the Deep State’s ongoing effort to obfuscate their criminality? If so, I’m thinking a classified materials leak may very well be a lot less problematic than a train derailment and spillage of hazardous materials in a river in a red state.
