As required for this position, TEIXEIRA holds a Top Secret security clearance, which was granted in 2021. Based on my training and experience, I know that acquiring his security clearance, TEIXEIRA would have signed a lifetime binding non-disclosure agreement in which he would have had to acknowledge that the unauthorized disclosure of protected information could result in criminal charges."
Read the pdf below.
This is silly. Anyone can have a TSCI. It just means they've cleared the rigorous background check. The rest is "need to know." It's like having a network ID. Doesn't mean you can see any resources when you're logged in. Well. Apparently this kid could, since somehow he got added into a profile that had this access but, that's the network admin's fault, or whomever authorized this, but it's not the fault of the TS clearance.
Don't know this kids occupational specialty, but if he was doing intelligence analysis/reporting or anything that touches on that, he would very likely have had access to JWICS, the SCI network. With that access, he could easily search for information and intelligence. HOWEVER, no way no how should he have been able to photograph these documents. Recording devices of ANY type are clearly and absolutely prohibited in those spaces. So either he broke that rule or he printed the pages and smuggled them out of the SCIF - another prohibited action. So where was the security team (Special Security Office) and work supervision?
I read he did IT.
Those were ODNI/CIA docs and doubtful on JWICS. But agree w your statement. Anyone can bring a phone into a SCIF, you’re just breaking the law when you do.
Correct, and by the way the same goes for a Q. The easiest way to get a Q clearance (indeed the way I got mine) is to go thru the DoD TS process using their E-QIP system (online SF-86 process). When the TS is confirmed the DoE grants the Q.
Note though - there are some offices like a comm center that may have classified stuff in inboxes or mail slots 24/7 in print form for dissemination. It isn't always digital. If you notice, the released docs in the news at least all have fold creases. That shows he folded them to smuggle them out. They could've still been digital but I seriously doubt he had a printer to print those unless he formed out at least 500-1k to buy one for home. At his age and rank I'd expect that money to go towards video games and systems.
Thank you! I don't care what your clearance level is it ALL comes down to "NEED TO KNOW".
There are alot of generals at the Pentagon that dont know anything about nuclear submarines because they don't have a "NEED TO KNOW "!