#Jack Teixeira

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Former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it online, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced. Teixeira received the sentence before Judge Indira Talwani in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In March, the national guardsman pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. He was arrested by the FBI in North Dighton, Massachusetts, in April 2023 and has been in federal custody since mid-May 2023.

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In the eight months since his arrest, federal law enforcement investigators and top intelligence officials, as well as Teixeira’s online friends, have struggled to understand what may have driven him to carry out one of the biggest classified intelligence disclosures in years. Nothing about Teixeira fit the profile of the traditional leaker. He wasn’t trying to expose official misdeeds. He wasn’t a principled whistleblower. Why would he give classified documents to a bunch of teenagers?


Documents and interviews by The Post in partnership with “Frontline” with more than four dozen people, including those who knew Teixeira online and in real life, as well as national security officials and experts, offer the most detailed account yet of his motivations, how he allegedly obtained so many national security secrets and how he was caught.

The answers are alarming and at times bewildering. They expose how vulnerable the Pentagon is to a threat from within and the vast proliferation of top-secret information across the government. Teixeira used his privileged access to read intelligence documents and reports that had nothing to do with his assigned duties. His superiors caught him in the act several times but did not remove him from his job.

His online world was a hothouse of racist and violent rhetoric, suffused with conspiracy theories. He sought out classified information to validate his baseless suspicions that federal law enforcement was complicit in mass violence as part of a plot to subdue and control the [white] citizenry.

Intelligence officials said the trove Teixeira is accused of revealing was extraordinarily damaging, full of details about the course of the Russia-Ukraine war, including troop casualty numbers that neither Moscow nor Kyiv had publicly shared. They discussed Ukrainian planning for sabotage operations and demonstrated that the United States was monitoring the communications of the Russian military, as well as Ukrainian generals and political leaders.

…Teixeira had warned the boys that federal authorities were “nefarious,” Charles said, capable of fiendish abuses. He claimed without evidence that “the feds” knew in advance of the racist May 2022 mass killing in Buffalo, among other massacres, and let them happen to create a pretext for tightening gun-control laws, Charles said.

…In March 2018, his sophomore year, a group of students reported Teixeira to the administration after they heard him “talking about Molotov cocktails and guns,” according to a copy of a Dighton police report that The Post and “Frontline” obtained following an official records request. Teixeira allegedly told one student, “I’ve got a moly [molotov cocktail] in my bag!” and asked, “What would you do if I threw one down the hall?” Another student said Teixeira made a similar statement to him about throwing the explosive at school.


Two teachers who had been trained on how to respond to a school shooter, and to spot warning signs of violence in their students, also expressed concerns about Teixeira “because of how much he talks about guns,” according to the police report.


A month earlier, Teixeira had shown classmates at a lunch table a video of someone apparently killed in battle in the Middle East. “Look at this!” Teixeira said “with a smile, almost as if he was excited,” the police report said.


Dighton police also took statements from several students who said Teixeira had made violent threats against Black people. They told investigators that Teixeira said, “I want to kill all Black people,” “Black people don’t exist,” and “I hate n-----s,” according to the police report. One student said Teixeira used the phrase “I want to kill all Black people” in his automotive class “a lot.”


One female student who reported Teixeira to administrators told police that he “makes racist comments and is always talking about guns or war and that she had also heard about him killing animals,” according to the report. The student also noted that Teixeira was attempting to obtain a firearms identification card “and that someone should know about it.” In the state of Massachusetts, the card permits the possession of “non-large-capacity rifles, shotguns, and ammunition.”

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[workersolidarity]

China's push to hijack enemy satellites could be 'game over' for US, national security expert warns

Unlike the majority of journalists and commentators, I do not buy for one moment the official US media and govt's official story about the recent Pentagon Intelligence Leaks.

All this began when reports started popping up a few weeks ago about a US intelligence leak released on a discord server. These leaks purported to show intelligence on the Russo-Ukraine War, including troop concentrations and casualty counts that differed from public statements by officials.

Soon after the documents became public knowledge, the MSM media went into overdrive to uncover the leaker, literally doing the work of the FBI for them, with the NY Times and CIA news-front-organization Bellingcat tracing the leaks back to a 21 year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira.

But how did a 21 year-old National Guardsman with a penchant for bragging on gaming discords get his hands on what appears to be high-level intelligence destined for high level officials including the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

Well, we know some things about how the US conducts its security protocols with regards to Military technicians who edit and put together intelligence for the Pentagon.

For one, it is standard protocol to investigate and monitor the various online profiles of Military service members with access to highly classified documents. This is done by multiple departments within the Federal Bureaucracy.

So I find it EXTREMELY not credible that an Airman First Class with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, with access to Top Secret Intelligence for whatever the purposes, could have been disclosing photos of Intelligence on a gamer Discord server without those agency's knowledge.

I find it far more credible that these agencies were in fact aware of Mr. Teixeira's penchant for braggadocio online and used him to release intelligence that they couldn't credibly release any other way.

The whole story was suspect from the beginning and after the leaker was revealed, it became obvious to me something else was going on here.

As far as I can tell, and this not an uncommon tactic during wartime, especially before an offensive, is that these leaks are part of a counterintelligence operation designed to mislead Russian military planners before the beginning of the coming Ukrainian counteroffensive. If I'm correct, they will likely be backed by various false telecommunications and radio transmissions designed to be intercepted by Russian intelligence.

This intelligence may suggest troop buildups in the wrong places, give wrong coordinates for ammunition depots, or it may misstate the size and direction of troop concentrations. Usually this is done in preparation for a large-scale offensive, especially, if as is the case with Ukraine, you've spent most of the last three months making public statements announcing your impending offensive.

The Russians, predictably, have spent that time building up fortifications and supplying troops in the areas they expect the offensive to come. At this point, it has become quite obvious the Ukrainian counteroffensive will be extremely costly for Ukraine, both in terms of military hardware and equipment, and also in terms of manpower, two things the Ukrainians can no longer afford to lose. The Pentagon is well aware of this and they're well aware of the likelihood that Russian Forces will go on the offensive again the moment Ukrainian troop formations are weakened, exhausted and running out of ammunition.

So what's the solution for the Pentagon?

Well if I'm right, these Leaks are designed to make sure at least some Russian troop formations are placed in the wrong places at the wrong times.

Their hope, if this succeeds, is to cut the landbridge connecting Russian-held territory in the Donbas with Crimea. At that point they will still be exhausted and running out of ammunition, but if US Counterintelligence can succeed in their manipulations and misdirection, enough troops and equipment may survive to hold and occupy the territory for long enough to call for a ceasefire and begin negotiations with the Russians before Russian Forces can go on the offensive again and retake the lost territory.

The reason I say this is because it's becoming more and more obvious that the US and NATO can no longer continue to procure enough ammunition and hardware to keep the war going beyond this offensive, and leaders in Washington and the Pentagon are already turning their attention towards China and ratcheting up tensions over Taiwan. They cannot fight both Russia and China, and when it comes down to it, China is the larger threat to US Hegemony.

And that brings me to this article on Fox and more confirmation to me that this Intelligence leak was on purpose.

Apparently, some of the intelligence leaked had nothing to do with Ukraine or the Russians at all. Some of the intelligence is apparently about China.

Specifically, the intelligence claims China is developing its cyber capabilities to include the ability to hijack or destroy enemy satellites. Needless to say this technology could be devastating to US or NATO forces ability to operate it's Forces, command the seas and defend Taiwan in close coordination in the event of war.

It seems very convenient that once again, this leak includes intelligence that, contrary to hurting US interests, actually reinforces the US narratives around China and Taiwan.

The article goes so far as to claim China is only investing in cyber and space technology in order to "disrupt, degrade and destroy US space capabilities".

The article quotes John Hannah, former Vice President and noted War Criminal Dick Cheney's National Security Advisor, as saying, "The future of warfare, one of the most contested domains, is going to be space. Space, in essence, is the new high ground. [The] country that controls space and the next battlefield is effectively, I think, got the best chance of actually winning the war,"

"If China is able to knock out our ability to see what the enemy is doing, our ability to exert command and control and communications between our own forces, it's virtually game over for us on the battlefield here on Earth," he continued.

The real goal over the coming year or two will be to wrap up the Ukraine War and ramp up a whole new one with China over Taiwan, using proxies, sanctions, preventing technology transfers, and direct confrontation on the South China Sea in an effort to contain and slow China's rise.

These Neocons in the Biden Administration just hop from one crisis to the next, crushing and destroying anyone and anything in their wake, regardless whether they pose any actual threat to the US Empire or whether they're threats are just perceived in the minds of the war planners.

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A majority of high profile classified document leakers are assholes. That includes Russian assets Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Jack Teixeira undeniably belongs in that category.

He is basically a far right white supremacist gun nut in addition to being a traitor.

Jack Teixeira, dressed in camouflage fatigues, his finger wrapped around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle, faced the camera and spoke as though reciting an oath.

“Jews scam, n----rs rape, and I mag dump.”

Teixeira raised his weapon, aimed at an unseen target and fired 10 times in rapid succession, emptying the magazine of bullets.

The six-second video, taken at a gun range near Teixeira’s home in Massachusetts, affords a brief but illuminating glimpse into the offline world of the 21-year-old National Guard member, who stands accused of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence on the group-chat platform Discord.

The Washington Post investigated Teixeira‘s background and online activities. He’s not exactly the boy next door which extremist blowhards like Tucker Carlson have claimed he is.

Teixeira’s love of guns, which first drew him to an online community of friends, was intertwined with a deep suspicion of the government that he served as an enlisted member of the Air National Guard. But Teixeira did not consider himself a whistleblower, according to friends.

By the time of his arrest, filings by federal prosecutors show that Teixeira had amassed a small arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, as well as a helmet, gas mask and night-vision goggles, all under the roof of the house where he lived with his mother and stepfather. The Post obtained and verified two videos taken at their home in Dighton, Mass., where the FBI arrested Teixeira last month.

Filmed from the shooter’s perspective, the first video shows a person identified by a Discord user as Teixeira firing an AR-style weapon into the forest. Another video shows the gunman firing a pistol into the woods behind Teixeira’s home, including two rapid volleys that suggest the weapon may have been modified. It isn’t clear what legal or illegal modifications Teixeira may have made, though devices like binary triggers and typically illegal auto sear accessories can make semiautomatic guns fire quicker than they are designed to shoot. A separate photograph shows an AK-style weapon resting on a table outside the family home next to a helmet with attached night-vision goggles.

For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. “He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,” said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years.

“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview. “I would say he was proud of it.”

Teixeira joined the National Guard in 2019 – during the Trump administration. We all remember how Donald Trump refused to admit there is such a thing as domestic terrorism. Obviously Trump doesn’t want to upset his white supremacist base.

The Post obtained hundreds of documents, as well as text messages, that Teixeira shared on the server over the course of several months. Teixeira’s lawyers declined to comment. Teixeira, who remains in federal custody, has not entered a plea.

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On Discord, an account with the handle “Jack the Dripper,” one of Teixeira’s known monikers, shared an image titled “payback,” showing a large passenger jet careening toward the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site.

Teixeira asserted that “lots of FBI agents were found to have sympathized with the Jan 6 rioters,” and he said naive members of the intelligence community, of which he was technically a part, had been “cucked.” He referred to mainstream press as “zogshit,” appropriating a popular white-supremacist slur for the “Zionist Occupied Government.” Friends said that during live video chats, Teixeira expounded on baseless accusations of shadowy, sinister control by Jewish and liberal elites, as well as corrupt law enforcement authorities.

“He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” the close friend said, adding: “I remember him multiple times talking about things like Waco and Ruby Ridge, and talking about how the government kills their own people,” referring to a pair of notorious armed standoffs that the far right has held up as emblematic of government oppression.

In addition to the federal charges, Teixeira may face additional charges as a member of the military. 

Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokeswoman, said Teixeira is subject to “potential discipline,” considering he was working under active duty. After the Air Force concludes an investigation, she said, a commander will determine if Teixeira should face charges in the military. The service is coordinating closely with the FBI in the leak investigation, she said.

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The military has, in the past, struggled to track down individuals who have espoused racist or white-nationalist ideologies. Service members have faced charges that include dereliction of duty and misconduct for racist rants.

Teixeira‘s extremism goes back to his high school years.

The interest in video games and conservative politics was accompanied by an acute obsession with violence, the friend said. “He would send me a video of someone getting killed, ISIS executions, mass shootings, war videos. People would screen-share it, and he would laugh very loudly and be very happy to watch these things with everyone else. He absolutely enjoyed gore.”

Friends may not have taken seriously Teixeira’s threats against his high school. But he voiced approval of some shooters, particularly when they targeted people of different races and faiths. Teixeira was especially impressed by a gunman’s rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, which left 51 people dead and 40 injured. “He was very happy that those people died,” the friend said, because they were Muslim.

This guy is seriously unhinged. The US military needs to conduct more effective investigations of new recruits. Several obvious red flags were missed back in 2019 when Teixeira signed up.

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Classified Ukraine war documents? In my Christian Minecraft server? It's more likely than you think.

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Jack Teixeira came of age in the era of Trumpism. The “2016 energy” the right is trying to recreate for 2024 was part of his childhood. It shaped his worldview and reality. He grew up at a time when the president of the United States made calling the press FAKE NEWS seem cool. Distrusting the government was BASED. Thinking Russia is a better place to live as a white man went from a fringe far-right theory to a widely accepted view in right-wing America. Even repealing the 19th Amendment—thus revoking a woman’s right to vote—has become a position Republicans are openly discussing. Even if Teixeira was never interested in politics, he was part of Trumpism’s racist subculture, and it led him down the path to extremism and a decision to destroy his life for nothing.

Jay McKenzie, Generation MAGA

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Pentagon informer Teixeira sentenced to 15 years for leaking classified files online

Jack Teixeira, who stole hundreds of classified documents from the Pentagon and posted them online, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty to six counts of knowingly possessing and transmitting national defence information in March.

All of the responsibility falls on my shoulders…and I accept what that may bring.

Prosecutors sought a 17-year prison sentence for the former Massachusetts National Guard member. During sentencing, Judge Indira Talwani noted that the leaked documents came after Teixeira underwent a lengthy training course on the consequences of leaks.

Despite that, you posted on the internet hundreds of documents over the period of a year.

After the sentencing, FBI special agent in Boston, Jodi Cohen, called Jack Teixeira “one of the most prolific leakers of classified information in American history.”

He transmitted it to our adversaries and our allies across the world.

Some of the information Teixeira disclosed included US troop movements overseas, the supply of military equipment to Ukraine, and discussions of a third-party conspiracy to target US forces overseas. Acting US Attorney Joshua S. Levy said at a press conference:

He leaked information that the government determined was likely to cause grave damage to the United States. We won’t know the full extent of Jack Teixeira’s damage for several years.

Read more HERE

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Jack Teixeira, 21, was charged with leaking secret Pentagon documents last month.

The Air National Guard member was preparing for a violent "race war," The Washington Post found.

The paper interviewed several of his close friends and reviewed unpublished videos and chat logs.

"...Teixeira, who viewed himself as a politically conservative Orthodox Christian, appeared to be preparing for a violent struggle against perceived adversaries, including Black people, liberals, Jews, gay and transgender people, the paper reported....

His online presence also revealed conspiratorial thinking and further racist thinking, including about Jewish people and Muslims..."

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[tomorrowusa]

Most things in life, and especially a basic respect for democracy and the rule of law, have to be cultivated. What is striking about the Republican Party is the extent to which it has, for decades now, cultivated the opposite — a highly instrumental view of our political system, in which rules and laws are legitimate only insofar as they allow for the acquisition and concentration of power in Republican hands.

Most Republicans won’t condemn Trump. There are his millions of ultra-loyal voters, yes. And there are the challenges associated with breaking from the consensus of your political party, yes. But there is also the reality that Trump is the apotheosis of a propensity for lawlessness within the Republican Party. He is what the party and its most prominent figures have been building toward for nearly half a century. I think he knows it and I think they do too.

– Jamelle Bouie at the New York Times on how Donald Trump is likely the natural result of the drift to lawlessness by the GOP over the past half century.

The narcissistic infantile Trump claims that he's being persecuted and has been singled out for political reasons. But if anything, prosecutors have been exceptionally careful about this investigation because of Trump's political standing.

Jamelle Bouie's NYT colleague David Leonhardt describes what happened to three people charged with the same sort of crimes that got Trump indicted.

And of course there the still-pending case of Jack Teixeira.

Trump not only knowingly shipped loads of classified documents, including nuclear secrets, to his home but he apparently used them to show off to his buddies – like Teixeira.

All Republicans can do is prattle false equivalences about Hillary's email server or equate Joe Biden's and Mike Pence's accidental retention of a handful of papers after their vice presidential terms were over.

Many Republicans seem to feel that they should be exempt from the law for life just because they're Republicans.

The GOP cannot call itself the "party of law and order" if they themselves refuse to obey the law.

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A Couple Of Snarky Snippets

I went in search of some actual news stories that didn’t have the words “Tucker Carlson” in them, and I found a couple that raised my hackles, to say the least … Someone dropped the ball Yesterday I read a couple of articles about the ‘leaker’ of military secrets, Jack Teixeira.  It seems this young man has been nothing but trouble for quite some time, which leads me to ask a few questions,…

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Vyšetřování Jacka Teixeiry pokračuje

Sledujte kauzu Jacka Teixeiry (21), člena národní letecké gardy Massachusetts, který má na triku únik a zveřejnění tajných vojenských zpravodajských informací:

Dosud byl mladík popisován jako někdo, kdo se jen ostatním diskutujícím na Discordu chtěl pochlubit s tím, k čemu mápřístup (a např. podle krajně pravicové fanatičky Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) je to hrdina) a v podstatě jde jen o pitomce, co nedomyslel důsledky svého jednání.

Nové důkazy ukazují na úplně jinou osobnost. Podle materiálů, které předložili soudu vyšetřovatelé a žalobci, měl Teixeira na Discordu pravidelně diskutovat o páchání hromadných střeleb a plánování vražd.

Ostatním diskutujícím se svěřil mj. s tím, že uvažuje o přestavbě minivanu na vůz pro páchání atentátů, ptal se jaké konkrétní zbraně by byly nejlepší pro střelbu ze zadní části SUV a popisoval, jakým způsobem by provedl střelbu z auta v městském a přeplněném příměstském prostředí. Prohlásil také, že kdyby bylo po jeho, tak by zabil spoustu lidí, protože by se tím "zbavil slabomyslných".

V soudních dokumentech žalobci uvádějí, že Teixeira byl v roce 2018 vyloučen ze střední školy poté, co ho spolužák zaslechl mluvit o "zápalných lahvích, zbraních ve škole a rasových hrozbách".

Teixeira diskutující dál informoval o tom, že si prostřednictvím armádního vybavení dohledával informace o proběhlých hromadných střelbách (Las Vegas, Uvalde, …).

Během domovní prohlídky u něj FBI objevila doslova arzenál zbraní, které měl ve skříni kousek od své postele. Našly se mimo jiné pistole, kulovnice, brokovnice, zbraň typu AK a plynová maska. Nalezena byla také munice a taktická pouzdra. Na fotografii z jeho ložnice je také ručně nakreslený návrh nákladního auta se zbraněmi, spousta pouzder se zásobníky a další vojenské příslušenství. Teixeira se také zjevně snažil zbavit důkazů a protože je to zjevně génius, tak rozbité věci vyhodil do kontejneru před svým domem.

Agenti tam tak našli jeho rozbitý tablet, zničený notebook a herní konzoli Xbox + také krabice od nového iPhonu. Dva dny před zatčením Teixeira kolegům sdělil, že má nové telefonní číslo a email. Na Discordu žádal ostatní uživatele o pomoc s mazáním starších příspěvků.

Obhajoba žádá o jeho propuštění z vazby až do doby, kdy má proběhnout soud, žalobci naopak argumentují, že muž představuje jasné nebezpečí pro národní bezpečnost (teoreticky by stále mohl mít v držení utajené informace, které by dál mohl zveřejnit) a komunitu a samozřejmě je tu riziko, že by se mohl pokusit uprchnout.

Teixeira může skončit na desítky let ve vězení.

Pokud si chcete pročíst celé podání, najdete ho tady (PDF soubory):

GOVERNMENT’S SUPPLEMENTAL MOTION IN SUPPORT OF PRETRIAL DETENTION

Citace z jeho rozhovorů zde:

DECLARA TION OF LUKE CHURCH, SPECIAL AGENT, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Fotografie z jeho ložnice zde: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.255930/gov.uscourts.mad.255930.19.6_1.pdf

Zdroj: https://twitter.com/VladaFoltan