{"id":570104,"date":"2023-04-13T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:41:44","slug":"what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/","title":{"rendered":"#What we know about suspected Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b739de1c8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/#What_officials_are_saying\" >What officials are saying<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/#Group_leader_allegedly_shared_intel_for_years\" >Group leader allegedly shared intel for years<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/#Documents_first_appear_in_March\" >Documents first appear in March\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/#The_New_York_Times_set_off_firestorm\" >The New York Times set off firestorm<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira\/#Ongoing_vulnerabilities\" >Ongoing vulnerabilities<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/discord_pentagon_STEFANIREYNOLDS_AFPviaGettyImages.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was arrested Thursday over his alleged role in leaking secret files from the Pentagon that have embarrassed U.S. allies and cast doubt on Ukraine\u2019s ability to succeed in its war with Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The arrest came hours after President Biden said on Thursday said the U.S. is \u201cgetting close\u201d in the investigation to finding the source of the largest government records leak in a decade.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/13\/world\/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html\">The New York Times\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0earlier Thursday that Teixeira, 21, was the leader of the Discord server where the files were shared and is an Airman First Class with the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>A hundred or more of the documents are thought to exist, detailing everything from Russian and Ukrainian battlefield assessments to affairs across U.S.-allied nations.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything we know about Teixeira and the investigation into him. <\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_officials_are_saying\"><\/span><strong>What officials are saying<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how Teixeira had access to highly classified information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland said Teixeira was suspected of \u201cunauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFBI agents took Teixeira into custody earlier this afternoon without incident. He will have an initial <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Pentagon press secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder declined to comment on the Justice Department\u2019s investigation and on Teixeira at a Thursday briefing.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking more broadly, Ryder said the leak was a \u201cdeliberate, criminal act\u201d and those with security clearances should know better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou receive training and you will receive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibility. It\u2019s called military discipline,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd in certain cases, especially when it comes to sensitive information, it also is about the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Group_leader_allegedly_shared_intel_for_years\"><\/span><strong>Group leader allegedly shared intel for years<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 2020, a group of online friends connected by a shared enthusiasm for guns and military gear started a server on Discord, a chat forum site primarily used for gaming,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/04\/12\/discord-leaked-documents\/\">The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Discord group, known as \u201cOG,\u201d worked at an unidentified military base and began sharing transcribed notes of classified intelligence with the server, called \u201cThug Shaker Central,\u201d which hosted up to 30 members, per the Post\u2019s report. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Post report did not name Teixeira, but a later New York Times report identified him as the leader of the group. In a July 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> post, the 101st National Guard congratulated Teixeira for his promotion to Airman 1st Class at Joint Base Cape Cod.<\/p>\n<p>OG claimed to spend part of his time in a secure government facility that prohibited cell phones and cameras. He was generally revered by the online server group and touted his access to classified secrets, according to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>But interest in the secrets waned over time in the server. Toward the end of last year, OG, who railed against U.S. corruption and shared right-wing ideology, shifted to taking pictures of the classified documents to maintain the group\u2019s attention on government secrets, per The Post.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Documents_first_appear_in_March\"><\/span><strong>Documents first appear in March\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Pictures of the classified documents first appeared outside of Thug Shaker Central in early March,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/news\/2023\/04\/09\/from-discord-to-4chan-the-improbable-journey-of-a-us-defence-leak\/\">investigative group Bellingcat reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A batch of 10 documents surfaced on a Discord server called \u201cMinecraft Earth Map\u201d after a user posted them.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingcat traced an earlier leak to a Discord server called \u201cWowMao,\u201d which appears to have been sourced from the Thug Shaker Central channel.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The documents were never supposed to leak out of the original server, according to The Times and The Post, which spoke to members of the original Discord server.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_New_York_Times_set_off_firestorm\"><\/span><strong>The New York Times set off firestorm<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Last week, The New York Times first reported that classified Pentagon documents were circulating online, quickly garnering the world\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>The documents were now being shared on Telegram and Twitter, breaking out of obscure chat forum sites and into the more public online world, where Russian sources also got their hands on them.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The first batch documents revealed the Pentagon\u2019s insider information on battlefield assessments in the war in Ukraine.\u00a0One of the documents, which later proved to have been altered, picked up widespread attention after it showed lower Russian casualty rates and high Ukrainian deaths in the war.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon last Friday said it was reviewing the document leaks and on Sunday turned over a formal investigation into the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ongoing_vulnerabilities\"><\/span><strong>Ongoing vulnerabilities<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Michael Butler, a professor of political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> at Clark University who specializes in foreign policy and security studies, said the document leaks have underscored what may be a \u201csystemic weakness\u201d and vulnerability in the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation is highly decentralized [and] can be moved very easily and quickly at no cost,\u201d Butler said, and actors \u201care able to exploit vulnerabilities in the system before the Department of Defense or intelligence agencies can close them again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has reportedly started to limit who has access to classified material and briefings since the leak occurred, and defense officials say they are reviewing policies around information sharing. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle has been pushing the Pentagon for answers on how the leaks occurred, and how it plans to stop them moving forward. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) told CNN Wednesday he received few answers during a non-classified briefing on Wednesday, and worried about the impact the leaks would have on U.S. relationships abroad. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all the soothing tones that I heard from the secretary of state, if I were an ally right now, I would be wondering whether the United States can keep their secrets safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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