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."
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I was going to say pretty much the same thing. It doesn’t even make sense that anyone, of any rank, on an Air National Guard base would need to know this information.
The bigger scandal here, if there really is one, is that the control of highly classified material is so poor. And, no, there is no need for new laws and regulations. They need to follow the laws and regulations that already exist.
There are always people of that age working with classified around the world. It is just a fact. I did it at 18 - TS SCI comm center overseas. As I said on another post I have a feeling it is more common in the Air Force and now probably the Space Force as well because there are more comms people in the AF. Navy also has a lot of nuclear stuff that would require clearances, but the USAF/USSF have all that communications, satellite, and missile stuff.
Something other people may not know is there are full-time Guard jobs. They don't all serve 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year (I don't know if this kid was full-time ANG or not).
I think this kid is being setup as a patsy. He absolutely could have had access to highly-classified material at that age and rank (I did at a lower rank and younger). However the format of the info he leaked - at least what has been publicly shared - is different than what he should've had responsibility for handling. I never saw stuff like what was released at a normal base, though I did see it at the Pentagon and NORAD. You know - places where war plans would be created, stored, and discussed - and where the high-level staff are located.
My suspicion is that he released a bunch of classified docs in a normal doc/message format and these maps and presentation slides were slipped in by someone else to push a narrative that UKR needs WAY more money or they will lose. Seems to me to be an easy way to release stuff they want and have a built-in patsy to take the fall.
That and as a person’s job situation changes these employees, elected or appointed officials don’t necessarily loose their TS rating. For instance the former Obama cabinet many still have their clearance. They simply need to use computers in the DNC office that has a scif. At least that is my understanding.
Mt brother is guard and he says the 102 air ng is an intelligence collection division. Everyone in that 102 has to have TS clearance. Agree with others that this was probably Need to know and SCIF so he shouldnt have had access probably.
Need to know is what drives this entire scenario. I’ve said it a few times, it is doubtful anyone at his base needs to know the information that was released, let alone a low ranking enlisted person.
Yeah i agree