WAPO: What we know about 21-year-old accused of leaking top-secret documents

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/13/document-leak-jack-teixeira-og/

What we know about 21-year-old accused of leaking top-secret documents

By Ben Brasch
Updated April 13, 2023 at 8:31 p.m. EDT|Published April 13, 2023 at 6:35 p.m. EDT A Massachusetts Air National Guard member was arrested by the FBI on April 13 in the investigation of leaks of classified military documents. (Video: WCVB)

A friend who spoke with The Post described Teixeira as patriotic, a devout Catholic and a libertarian with an interest in guns and doubts about America’s future.

The leaked documents included the whereabouts and movements of high-ranking political leaders and tactical updates on military forces along with geopolitical analysis and insights into foreign governments’ efforts to interfere with elections.
The leak, per The Post, revealed how the United States gathers foreign intelligence — not just on Russia’s military and spy agencies but also partners like Ukraine and Israel in addition to key allies in Asia, such as South Korea.

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So, this explains exactly how irrational americans are: Libertarians pretend they don't need society or rule of law, yet he imagines himself patriotic and catholic. Sorry, but you're clearly just operating on emotional delusions if you think you can be all 3 o those things simultaneously. By definition, you cannot. This is exactly the cognitive dissonance that had half the country voting for a mysoginist pig.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. Snot nosed punk trying to impress his online friends with his importance.

That's really all that needs to be said about him. And then put him away for good. (Edit--they need to stop making this little shit into something deep and thoughtful)

[vlyons]

6. agree completely

Stupid stupid BOY (not a man) self-involved with his own importance. Many people label themselves as some religion member, in his case Catholic, who don't actually practice the teachings of that religion. I'll bet he's never seriously contemplated the Sermon on the Mount. So much for Blessed are the peacemakers ...

[betsuni]

3. Isn't it similar to Snowden? Patriotic until Democratic president, libertarian, huge ego.

[orthoclad]

7. No

[Demsrule86]

14. Snowdon was a traitor who got agents killed. I have no use for him. Let him rot in Russia.

[betsuni]

24. +1

[betsuni]

26. Why not?

[Hortensis]

4. Add young social misfit info coming out, fitting the pattern.

I went looking for what classmates might have to say because it's become such a strong pattern. Those whose illegal actions have suddenly put them under national spotlights were typically quiet, typically socially isolated with few or no friends or romantic involvements.

Of course, almost no young people leak important classified documents or engage in violent extremism or other societally-harmful actions. But in those who do, the unhappy social misfit pattern is very strong. Claiming noble goals to justify their actions is also part of the pattern.

Teixeira would sometimes wear camouflage to school, carried a “dictionary-sized book on guns” and behaved in a way that made some students uneasy, former classmates said. ... “A lot of people were wary of him. He was more of a loner, and having a fascination with war and guns made him off-putting to a lot of people.” ... "recalled him as a pleasant and quiet kid who was sometimes picked on. He didn’t have many friends." "Other students , who asked not to be identified, said they detected a more menacing vibe from Texeira, who some recalled making comments they perceived as racist or mumbling derogatory things about people under his breath."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/politics/jack-teixeira-profile/index.html

[betsuni]

25. +1

[orthoclad]

5. "devout Catholic"

been there, done that.

At some point, people stop believing IN god and start believing they ARE god. Gives them the right to act. Moral immunity. The "God" vaccine.

[jimfields33]

16. Every one of these problem individuals have been loaners.

I think when the school, military, ect sees a loaner, a mandatory counseling session should be required. Get to the bottom of their problem. I bet that would solve a lot of these terrible individuals.

[orthoclad]

19. Do you really think he acted alone?

I strongly suspect he had some assistance in getting those docs.

[jimfields33]

22. I have no idea. I'm sure that will come out in the investigation.

[orthoclad]

23. He literally acted as leader of the pack

"Mentor" to his little group of online acolytes. He may have been a loner in life, but he acted in a group online.

Allegedly, of course.

[RAB910]

8. libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke pot

[MurrayDelph]

10. Libertarians operate on two equal and opposite fallacies

They have an exaggeratedly high, and false, view of their intrinsic value
matched with an exaggeratedly low, and equally false, view of everyone else's.

[maxrandb]

11. Libertarians suffer from delusions of adequacy. NT

[orthoclad]

20. Anarchists who want police protection for their property

[LiberalFighter]

12. I would be investigating that friend too.

[mzmolly]

13. ..."libertarian with an interest in guns"

Who would have thought?

[blogslug]

15. Josh Marshall of TPM has a problem with this WaPo article. I do too.

Link to tweet

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

The editorial decisions behind this article are troubling. It presents Teixeira as a paradox, a patriotic guy from a patriotic familiar who nonetheless leaked a mountain of classified info. Definitely side with America and was from a military family etc,

2/ Yet the person described is a textbook far right radical, heavily into guns, racist and antisemitic, worshipping at the cult of Ruby ridge/antigovernment activism. There aren’t any contradictions to reconcile. Again, textbook.

3/ If Tim McVeigh had lived this might literally be his son, literally as well as figuratively...

[Roland99]

17. Total gaslighting with that headling "patriotic family"

jingoistic bs

[lindysalsagal]

18. Can't argue with your analysis. But the article was quoting his friend, so, it's not their opinion

of him, just the friend's.

[orthoclad]

21. Bingo on WaPo

They did a few pieces on groups of people arming themselves recently, and focused on a few outliers in the left like the John Brown Gun Club and ignored the many thousands (or millions) on the right who've been doing "militias" for decades. Fair and balanced!

[róisín_dubh]

27. Oh lord, these people are delusional...

'“He’s a good person that trusted the wrong people, in my opinion,” the friend said. He said Teixeira would remain his friend and that he hoped to reschedule a hiking trip they had planned together.'

Yeah, think you're gonna have a bit of a wait on that hiking trip...