Some insider threats are more equal than others; so goes the position of the nation’s biggest leaker of classified documents in modern history, and it’s not Jack Teixeira.
This story shows the importance of what was hidden by the combined efforts of the national security apparatus in 2018.
Readers here are familiar, but most Americans are not, with how Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner leaked a top-secret classified Title-1 FISA application in March of 2017.
Then the Vice-Chair of the SSCI, Senator Warner instructed Senate Security Director James Wolfe to leak the 82-page FISA application assembled against Carter Page. On the afternoon of March 17, 2017, Wolfe took 82 pictures of the “Read and Return” document that was delivered to the SSCI basement SCIF by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brian Dugan from the Washington Field Office.
Later that evening, Wolfe sent the images to journalist Ali Watkins using an encrypted messaging app. Ms. Watkins then shared the FISA content with her peers and used the information to leverage a top-tier job at the New York Times. The media were off to the races talking about FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign and using the leaked FISA as evidence of the ongoing investigation, later known as Crossfire Hurricane. Three days later, March 20, 2017, after coordinating the intent of the narrative creation with Mark Warner, FBI Director James Comey publicly admitted the Trump-Russia investigation for the first time.
After James Wolfe was arrested for the FISA application leak, his defense lawyers threatened to expose the role of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the leak and subpoena the members as witnesses. The Mueller/Weissmann team, then in charge of all DOJ operations that touched on Trump-Russia, took apart the evidence of Wolfe’s conduct, and DC Attorney Jessie Liu dropped most of the charges against Wolfe. Mueller then ran cover for Mark Warner, and eventually – out of an abundance of caution to maintain the need for the coverup operation – the Mueller/Weissmann team then made the FISA application public. The rest is history.
Keep in mind, I could be civilly sued if anything written above as an asserted truth was false. I’m not, because the truth is the defense. All of this happened.
At the time of the Mark Warner TSCI leak, no one outside the DOJ-FBI and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had ever seen a FISA application. Heck, in 2017 through early 2018, it was considered a classified intelligence breech to even discuss the FISA process, the procedures or the court itself. People forget that.
The 2017 leaking of the FISA application was the biggest national security breach in years, perhaps seconded only to the 2017 leaking of the TSCI transcript from National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, given to the Washington Post by the FBI a month earlier.
So, it’s somewhat hypocritical and ironic to see SSCI Chairman Mark Warner now railing against the Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence over not being provided the details of documents leaked by a low-level military servicemember in the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
WASHINGTON DC – The Senate Intelligence Committee is demanding the Pentagon hand over copies of all the classified documents leaked by Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira.
The 21-year-old serviceman was accused by the Department of Defense of leaking “sensitive and highly-classified material” into a chat on the encrypted communications platform Discord. It then made its way onto other social media platforms. He was charged on Friday.
In a letter addressed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and ranking member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the leak prompted concerns about “serious deficiencies” in the government’s security protocols.
“According to public reporting, A1C Teixeira began sharing classified information and classified documents within a social media platform as early as December 2022—nearly four months before the government’s discovery,” the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, read. “These disclosures indicate serious deficiencies in the government’s insider threat and security vetting protocols.” (read more)
Let’s not forget schiffty schiff, who would leave closed door meetings to leak info to waiting media.
Schiff, the lowest of the low, a lyin’ sack of human trash as can be found anywhere in all of Congress.
Should be handed a life sentence for Treason and then pursue his policy of leaks from the slammer.
Who can forget the drunken Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner at Hillary Clinton fundraiser On Martha Vineyard saying if you gave him another drink he would spill all the goods he has on Mr. Trump?
What a pathetic swamp member.
THAT’S what that was! Have been trying to remember all this time… what it was that he said he would spill….was thinking he was talking about what they — he, the intel guys, and the rest of the establishment — had planned FOR the president-in-exile…but that wasn’t it, eh? It was insinuating that he had lots of “dirt” to spill on Trump? Now that’s pathetic.
Warner is a pompous pig.
…with a huge, bulbous nose (*Honk, honk) and facial craters/boulders
I just wanna know why (because yeah, what SD said about being sued/not being sued is true — so I can’t be sued)…I just wanna know why no one can be or is being sued over, at the very least, RussiaRussiaRussia!
Because the Justice System has been taken over by the Just-Us Marxist regime.
Because Russia did do a bunch of election meddling. The problem is the focus has been as if trump was colluding – which he didn’t. Russia even had an anti trump parade after he was elected, that’s never mentioned . It’s been framed incorrectly around a true series of events.
How many times do we read in the media….
Anonymous sources
Sources close to the media,etc
Blah…blah…blah
Seems that media got peeved because the “leaker” didn’t “leak” through the approved method.
Because…when you really think about it….
Aren’t those Anonymous Sources –and Sources close to the media nothing more than……..LEAKERS?
Warner has a wank -shaped nose.
I think he just got punched alot in school.
I think his nose is made of Silly Putty. Maybe his brain, too.
Not sure that was the point William was making.
Little RINO Marco is very much a part of the deep state. One step above his democrat opponent in the 2020 election. He had no primary challenger. I’m disgusted with him. Ever time he opens his mouth he lies.
Look out for Rick Scott former governor of Florida to be the next leader of the Senate. He made millions in the healthcare industry. Absolutely a RINO in the shadows.
We need to find someone else to run for senator, should be ready by 2025. That when the Senate starts to campaign.
He’s so utterly mediocre, it’s pitiful.
Like Sundance has often posited; always look for the leverage. What are these spawns of Erebos up to? More control of the platforms to exercise speech, speech itself……most certainly the former and a good chance the latter.
Highly unlikely an E-3 in the National Guard that does 1 weekend a month of training was the leaker and has access to Joint Chief of Staff security briefings.
https://sonar21.com/more-unanswered-red-flags-regarding-jack-texeira/
I told Daniel Gade numerous times to read Sundance’s work on Warner, and to use it. The fool didn’t listen.
Is Warner trying to lend credence to the ruse the this young national guardsmen, was able to do this himself? Warner is railing against something that didn’t happen. Do you national guardsmen did not have access to those documents. They were given to him by someone higher up. Since that person or persons have not been identified, and given our governments, recent history, I think that it is safe to assume that this was all planned, to create a false premise that the government needs to expand its security power.
Found in the bin… 🙁
When I served in NG, we needed clearance to use the men’s room.
NSS
It’s always a race to the bottom with these morons.
Doth protest too much. Restrict Act is by product of Patriot Act and will get forced through against an unwilling public. The silence is telling.
Sadly, the truth is no longer a defense in modern America. Go with God, Sundance.
Most of these rats have NO intention of repenting! They will fight to the end, that I hope is soon for these corrupt traitors. No mercy! No deals! They must pay the price for their crimes in order to send a message to those in the future…or even now that would attempt to do the same. Just Like the criminals these corrupt DA’s are letting back out on the street. They don’t repent even after being caught, they go right back out and do worse! To Gitmo with all of them and let a military tribunal set their fate….and let’s send them to a nice, cozy, very hot location down under!
There is an uncurable level of corruption in every facet of our government that it is time to return all power to the states, except the military and then hold another national convention to redesign our government, eliminating as much national government as is reasonable and return the real power to the states.