Sometimes the obvious answers are in the reality of the part that few pay attention to.
According to the original outline, as presented by the Washington Post last night [Original Story Here], the full surveillance and intelligence power of the United States government was unable to locate the source of the largest leak of U.S. classified intelligence in a decade, but some journalists found a teenager in his mom’s basement with all the answers. This is the story, and they are sticking to it.
I’ve been in enough rabbit holes created by the silos of the intelligence community to know when not to enter one. First things first, what silo uses the Washington Post?
We all should know by now the same three-letter operators in charge of the Amazon Cloud Service, are the same three-letter operators who use the PR firm known as the Washington Post.
Why the intelligence people from inside the CIA/NSA silo wanted to exploit the teenage gamer with a connection to an intelligence leaker, as the preferred narrative is unknown. However, the DHS details provided in the intelligence community follow-up through the New York Times does provide some clues.
New York Times – The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.
Two U.S. officials confirmed that investigators want to talk to Airman Teixeira about the leak of the government documents to the private online group. One official said Airman Teixeira might have information relevant to the investigation.
Federal investigators have been searching for days for the person who leaked the top secret documents online but have not identified Airman Teixeira or anyone else as a suspect. The F.B.I. declined to comment. (read more)
There it is again….
The CIA, DoD, NSA, FBI, DHS and all of the combined systems of the United States intelligence apparatus, the kind that can isolate your location through the mirrored image on a WaWa CCTV camera in Podunk, Mississippi, could not find the 21-year-old originating leaker who was posting details, images and classified data for months in a chat room online. But the Washington Post and New York Times can isolate, locate, interview, record, broadcast and then name the suspect within 12 hours….
Okay. Gotcha!… and now the government will talk to young Mr. Jack Teixeira about his endeavors. Got it.
I have been in these intelligence creations, and we have traveled into the rabbit hole of their intelligence storylines long enough to spot one when it surfaces.
My gut hunch… Two issues. The first is the obvious; the USG was cool with the leaked information because it formed the baseline for a geopolitical change in direction, a pivot away from the quagmire they created in Ukraine. This part is obvious, because if that wasn’t the case the leak cleanup operation would have been silent. The collective IC would have just traced the origin, destroyed the information, pulled in the participants and black-holed the entire mess.
The fact the IC engineered a media narrative for it, pushing the leak story into the mainstream cycle, says the IC had a motive to promote the leak narrative.
Second, the gaming “sector” has always been a thorn in the side of those who seek to control communication and conduct surveillance therein. They are already in social media platforms, but the gaming platforms were not exploited to scale. The USG has now established a baseline to enter that sphere of communication and networking and begin formal operations in the gaming platforms.
Still, anytime the U.S. Intelligence Community is involved, it is always best practice to watch and remain out of the hole.
The only question you really need to ask yourself is, what aspect of my liberty does this intelligence operation support the removal of?
After all… if only we had the Restrict Act in place, then none of this classified information surfacing on social media would be such a concern, right? Right?
Remember…. “Greasy Bear hackers and Macedonian Bot Farms might sound like a good justification for a prosecution when pitched to an incurious media. However, when Greasy Bear and the accused Macedonians show up in court, well, the prosecutors might just have a problem. That is the backdrop for a series of bizarre requests from the Special Prosecutor to seal the evidence against the accused, Concord Management, and the defendant’s response. (read more)
The same people who said Russia blew up their own pipeline.
Arrested for sharing, leaking or hacking?
Fox News narrative starts of with “The biggest intel leak in decades” – Jack Teixeira accused of leaking. Watch it through to see what members of the panel mention past events that happened, notably the Benghazi video and how many people notice the same pattern – when there is truth and something to hide.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6324983998112
I just finished reading a very interesting update, which makes a lot of sense to me anyways, from Larry Johnson on the 21 yr old scapegoat (Larry posts daily updates on the Ukraine war & other topics too). I originally was reading some of his articles posted on Gateway Pundit, but found his blog site several months ago…
“Update- A Controlled Leak And A 21 Year Old Scape-Goat?”
//sonar21.com/a-controlled-leak-and-a-21-year-old-scape-goat/
Note : Eric Toler’s name among the reporters is not clickable ; hmmm
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html
By Haley Willis, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Aric Toler, Christiaan Triebert, Julian E. Barnes and Malachy Browne
Aric Toler – head of research and training with the Bellingcat investigative consortium, said he found the cache of new documents on Friday, a day after at least six purported images of classified U.S. documents were published on the
Telegram platform by pro-Kremlin war commentators. At least one of these images had been altered—to lower an estimate of Russian casualties and to inflate Ukrainian losses.
Earlier I shared an article at The NYTimes article which has Eric Toler listed as one of the contributing writers but his name was not clickable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html
By Haley Willis, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Aric Toler, Christiaan Triebert, Julian E. Barnes and Malachy Browne
April 13, 2023
Now his name is not there any more.
Who is Eric Toler? I had asked in an earlier post here.
Next, who is idontknow?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/classified-documents-leak.html
Last question answer: agent provocateur – amateur at that.
Anyone who has hung out in the J-2 Shack knows that the TeeVee is always on–usually tuned to FOX or SKY. (Used to be CNN until it became apparent that the truth was not in them.)
More often than not, the first buzz plus details comes from the Newsies.
I understand the above content. But what about the young guardsman? How does he come into play?
I fear for his future.
I loathe my government.
The Post andNYT didn’t find anything. They were given the info by the Intel Agencies. PERIOD
Officials are saying (It’s (emphasis mine) UNCLEAR how Teixeira had access to highly classified information)
Merrick Garland said Teixeira was (SUSPECTED ) of “unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.”
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder (declined to comment) on the Justice Department’s investigation and on Teixeira at a Thursday briefing.
(But speaking more broadly), Ryder said the (leak was a “deliberate, criminal act” ) ” Deliberate ”
According to Washington Post, leader of the Discord group, known as “OG,” worked at an unidentified military base and began sharing transcribed notes of classified intelligence with the server, called “Thug Shaker Central,” which hosted up to 30 members.
Question : Who is OG and why is he still not identified with the military base where heworked when he was sharing notes of classified intelligence with the server “Thug Shaker Central” and where is was using Discord from? Is he then what the Post report allude to although it did not name Teixeira? A later New York Times report identified him as the leader of the group and how did they know?
Who interviewed OG? Washington Post?
When was that done according to the video leader of the Discord group, known as “OG”?
Toward the end of last year, OG, it seems, railed against U.S. corruption and shared right-wing ideology, shifted to taking pictures of the classified documents to maintain the group’s attention on government secrets, per The Post.
Pictures of the classified documents first appeared outside of Thug Shaker Central in early March, investigative group Bellingcat reported. OG claimed to spend part of his time in a secure government facility that (PROHIBITED) cell phones and cameras. How then was he able to take pictures that are posted – a half-body shot (of someone in uniform with documents he appears to be taking with a phone of the classified documents – with background of what appears to be a private residence? If he had no access to cell or cameras, which camera took this shot? How is it the shot shows him with a cellphone taking shots of the documents? Who is this guy in the shots? Who took the shots or are they from a security camera?
A batch of 10 documents surfaced on a Discord server called “Minecraft Earth Map” after a user posted them.
Bellingcat traced an earlier leak to a Discord server called “WowMao,” which appears to have been sourced from the Thug Shaker Central channel.
The documents were never supposed to leak out of the original server, (according to The Times and The Post), which supposedly spoke to members of the original Discord server. Who and how many of those members were spoken to?
Last week, The New York Times set off the firestorm and reported that classified Pentagon documents were circulating online, garnering the global attention; as they were 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.
How did the leaks occur since (according to the Pentagon) 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. How is it that “Information that is highly decentralized [and] be moved very easily/quickly at no cost,” not a “systemic weakness” and vulnerability in the Pentagon – that actors “are able to exploit vulnerabilities in the system before the Department of Defense or intelligence agencies can close them again.”??
Can they even trace/pinpoint to those when/where/computer or server accesses and sessions of all file sharing activities? In fact few answers were forthcoming according to Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) telling CNN Wednesday he received few answers during a non-classified briefing on Wednesday.
The Pentagon said it is reaching out to allies about the leak, and is checking the veracity of the documents, but it declined to say how many documents may have been leaked, how many people inside the government had access to the documents, which allies it has contacted and who at the Defense Department will be leading the review.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby also couldn’t say on Monday whether more documents might be released.
“We don’t know. We truly don’t,” he said during the White House press briefing.
It is inconceivable that those vulnerabilities had not been addressed that it is only now that they are starting to review policies around information sharing.
“….I have certain rules I live by….I don’t believe anything the government tells me….and I don’t take seriously the media or press in this country.”
– George Carlin, 1937-2008
I couldn’t agree more, this is also an attempt to prop up two organizations that have lost credibility in the faith of readers.
The only thing we have really discovered, is that the Washington post, and the New York Times are still in bed with the intelligence community.