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.
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.