How many believe that a 21-year-old National Guard member was the master mind behind the most recent Pentagon leaks? And is the real story the leaks, or what the leaks reveal? Stay tuned.
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How many believe that a 21-year-old National Guard member was the master mind behind the most recent Pentagon leaks? And is the real story the leaks, or what the leaks reveal? Stay tuned.
Private Snuffy (okay, Airman Snuffy) is a patsy. I'm sure he has some involvement in the leaks, but find it amazingly coincidental that none of the stank gets on Major Smedlapp or Colonel Smuckatelli or General Fuknozzel. This guy is just the lowest point of the food chain to be hung out to dry.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that he isn't, so far, getting the Bradley Manning hero treatment from the media. But we know better than to expect them to actually do a journalism and ask hard questions.
From how the media is focusing on how bad the leaker is, we know the substance of the leaks is the story.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised to find out that the 21 year old airman is a patsy.
ReplyDeleteBut I would be equally unsurprised to hear he was able to get those documents through gross negligence on the part of his supervisor and unit leadership. Not to mention really bad judgment by one or secure network managers.
What JeffS said.
ReplyDeleteIf anything, I'd tend toward the 'gross negligence' scenario. I worked in facilities management for a major oil firm and got regular updates on security. I became accustomed to conversations ending suddenly when I got in the lift. All that, and still I'd find documents stamped CONFIDENTIAL left behind after meetings.
Yep, gross negligence as Jeff S said. And the young "airman" wanted desperately to impress his fellow incel gamers, all of whom were even younger than he.
ReplyDeleteNot prepared to buy the story that the guy decided to pull this off all on his own. Of course, it's possible, but until I see more info I don't think it's likely. And again I ask, is the main story the leak itself, or what got leaked? My understanding is that the leaked material showed up the Biden administration for being a bunch of liars (again). Yeah, we'd like to think our intel security is better than this. But we'd also like to think that Biden's ventriloquists aren't, in fact, secretly leading us into a hot war. If the latter is what's going on, then I hope we see a hundred leaks.
ReplyDeleteAnd again I ask, is the main story the leak itself, or what got leaked?
ReplyDeleteOh, it's WHAT got leaked, Paco, no question about it. The focus on a 21 year old airman is merely a distraction.
The media and the donks (yes, I do repeat myself) wouldn't be falling over each other to downplay the content (again, through distraction) if the content wasn't genuine.
Not that Slow Joe and his handlers aren't screwing things up all by their lonesome ... ... smarter people have pointed out that publishing detailed intelligence (either directly or through leaks) gives the Russkis clues as to what sources and/or channels have been compromised. And presents the opportunity to either shut them down, or exploit them by inserting false information. Two can play that game, y'know.
Not just the Russkis but the Chinese as well. The Reds have been very cozy. Leaks and balloons ...leaks and balloons. Just saying.
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ReplyDeleteWe have some significant problems inside of America’s intelligence community and they existed long before anyone had ever heard of Teixeira and his gaming buddies. He’ll probably wind up doing a significant stretch behind bars, but that doesn’t solve anything. Teixeira was a symptom, not the actual disease. If someone that new to the game had that level of access to secret material, we’re almost certainly missing a lot of other leaks and exposures involving people smart enough not to get caught.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/04/16/blinken-dont-worry-our-allies-are-fine-with-those-leaks-n544106
The real problem with this specific incident sorting the wheat from the chaff -- if Teixeira is a patsy (and I still think it's a coin flip between that and gross negligence), the clowns who set him are going to cover their tracks ... ... with the help of the Lame Stream Media.
The overarching problem is that this ever happened in the first place. Bradley Manning did much the same thing, and yet here we are with deja vu all over again. That's why I'm looking at the gross negligence scenario.
Of course, it's entirely possible (if not probable) that Teixeira is a patsy simply to cover up the gross negligence of his supervisory chain, not to mention the network managers who didn't firewall off classified information on a "need to know" basis. Even though the airman was an IT specialist, his access to those documents is highly suspect. If not outright damning.
Oy.