‘The Five’ reacts to ‘biggest intelligence leak in decades’
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Geraldo Antoinette: "Let them Drive Bentleys!"
Kinnakeet
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Just like the day after 911 they knew who every one of those MFer's by nameexactly and now the entire world has seen the big fat dog and pony show.
They want us to believe they don't know who the J6 pipe bomber is or who leaked the decision to the press on abortion but alas, this person was found pronto.
Kinnakeet
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How much for the property Im interested...
The Five is only interesting when Gutfeld slays Geraldo.
SamSpade
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I do enjoy The Five more when Gutfeld is on - you might notice on SOME shows, he's at the end furiously scribbling notes - and when it's his turn to speak - he drops the usual comedic routine and just lays it out VERY simply. No regurgitated talking points - that's what the notes are for - just pure Greg.
There's a few shows where he does none of this - but it's great when he does. Just like his opening monologues on Gutfeld! .
Clem72
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I don't understand how Geraldo is still on TV. Does anyone actually like the guy? He hasn't been relevant since the early 90s. At least Donahue and Sally Jessie Raphael had the decency to ride off into the sunset. He was booted from his TV show, his radio show lost it's syndication for lack of interest, who is demanding they keep putting Geraldo on TV? F*ck that guy in his stupid mustachioed face.
They want us to believe they don't know who the J6 pipe bomber is or who leaked the decision to the press on abortion but alas, this person was found pronto.
☕️ LEVEL FOUR ☙ Friday, April 14, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Local wins; New York Times leads FBI to leaker; State Dept kills off travel to 14 countries; Bragg loses his first Trump challenge; lots of SADS stuff; health freedom news from Florida; and more.
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Yesterday evening, the Wall Street Journal ran an utterly fabulous monstrosity of a story headlined, “Air Guardsman Arrested in Connection With Leaked Documents.”In a story so moronic that it is painful to have to write about it (they’re practically daring me to use the ‘r’ word, and I’ll do it, just try me), the 100% government-controlled, perfectly useless, heinously criminal corporate media was made out to be the hero of the evolving narrative. As I type this, I can feel the IQ points storming out of my cranium in a huff, bags hastily packed, irate at just being asked to consider this ridiculous fairy tale sufficiently credible to even make fun of it. It’s the kind of story I would usually blithely ignore, except that a hastily-assembled taradiddle like this one evidences a historic, narrative-wrecking goof up of Bidenic proportions.
As Tennyson used to say about the poor doomed soldiers of the Light Brigade, not though the soldier knew, someone, somewhere, had blundered.
And how.
According to the breathless media reports, in the speediest investigation in history, by crack investigative journalists sprinting past law enforcement, diligent New York Times sleuths supposedly nabbed the Minecraft Papers leaker — who allegedly had physical access to top-secret, print-only documents from five different intelligence agencies — who was promptly taken down in a massive FBI raid.
The devilish traitor — definitely NOT a whistleblower exposing official White House lies, no, never, this is NOT like the Pentagon Papers at all, how dare you, do you love Putin or something? — is supposed to be a 21-year-old part-time member of the Air National Guard and video game aficionado.
Give me a break. The story is utterly preposterous and the Journal knows it. Although it couldn’t risk biting the withered, decaying hand that feeds it tasty intelligence snacks, the Journal still couldn’t quite help expressing some thinly-veiled skepticism:
It wasn’t immediately clear why somebody with his job title—cyber transport systems journeyman—would have access to the types of files that have surfaced.
You don’t say! I can’t wait to hear the convoluted **** and bull they come up with to explain how videogamer Jack Texiera, 21, outwitted the top intelligence agencies in the country. This should be good.
The Journal reported with a straight face that Joe Biden and President Zelenskyy both said the leaks were completely harmless and didn’t give away anything worth noting. The leaked files “have no operational significance,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, said in an interview. “They have no impact on the front line or the planning of the General Staff.” The Former Vice President, when asked for an update on the leak investigation Thursday during a trip to Dublin, said he was concerned that the leak happened, but “there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that’s of great consequence.”
Well then, what’s all the hoopla about?
Meanwhile, the alphabet networks (CNN, MSNBC, etc) piled on Mr. Texiera, breathlessly reporting the young Massachusetts man is a racist, sexist, homophobe with a gun fetish and probably a Trump supporter. In other words, he’s a terrifically bad person. Virtue signal fail. So obviously Mr. Texiera can’t be a whistleblower or anything good like that.
Coincidentally, this was also, of course, the official, government-approved narrative:
Teixeira’s Discord group was fairly small, accepting new members by invitation only. It had about 30 members at its peak, including a number of teenage boys, who enjoyed telling politically incorrect jokes – the name of the group was borrowed from a gay pornography video – and egging each other on to greater heights of verbal transgression. Some frankly racist comments were made in the forum. The Washington Post summarized the bulk of the content posted by the group as “memes, offensive jokes, and idle chitchat.”
Some of them created fictitious identities for themselves, including a member living in Kentucky who pretended he was a Russian naval officer, a ruse that apparently prompted early suspicions that Teixeira’s group was created or infiltrated by foreign intelligence agents. The members who spoke to the Washington Post insisted they were just a rowdy crew of young people looking for online companionship during the lockdowns. A great deal of steam was blown off, but in addition to the trash talk, some members conducted serious discussions of the Ukraine war and prayed together online.
Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Teixeira began posting what he described as classified material on the forum. At first, he retyped what he claimed to have seen on these documents, but later he included photographic images of the originals. According to other group members, he switched to photos of the documents when he grew frustrated with the amount of work needed to retype them, and the inability of other members to understand military and intelligence jargon.
Teixeira is accused of ultimately leaking over a hundred purportedly classified documents, many of them pertaining to the Ukraine war. According to reports, he often presented these documents as evidence that every government involved in the conflict is lying to its citizens about the progress of the war. He also allegedly posted materials related to other news stories discussed in the Thug Shaker Central forum, including foreign interference in U.S. elections, U.S. interference in foreign governments, and the Chinese spy balloon saga.
Why did he allegedly post classified documents? Teixeira’s friends told reporters he does not view himself as a “whistleblower” in the vein of Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who claimed his exposure of classified materials was conducted to defend privacy rights and expose government surveillance overreach.
Instead, Teixeira evidently posted these documents because he wanted to impress and educate other members of his Discord group, especially the younger members, who he viewed as proteges. The poster identified in reports as Teixeira escalated his activities when he did not think the others were paying enough attention to his opinions and the material he was exposing.
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Some of them created fictitious identities for themselves, including a member living in Kentucky who pretended he was a Russian naval officer, a ruse that apparently prompted early suspicions that Teixeira’s group was created or infiltrated by foreign intelligence agents. The members who spoke to the Washington Post insisted they were just a rowdy crew of young people looking for online companionship during the lockdowns. A great deal of steam was blown off, but in addition to the trash talk, some members conducted serious discussions of the Ukraine war and prayed together online.
Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Teixeira began posting what he described as classified material on the forum. At first, he retyped what he claimed to have seen on these documents, but later he included photographic images of the originals. According to other group members, he switched to photos of the documents when he grew frustrated with the amount of work needed to retype them, and the inability of other members to understand military and intelligence jargon.
Teixeira is accused of ultimately leaking over a hundred purportedly classified documents, many of them pertaining to the Ukraine war. According to reports, he often presented these documents as evidence that every government involved in the conflict is lying to its citizens about the progress of the war. He also allegedly posted materials related to other news stories discussed in the Thug Shaker Central forum, including foreign interference in U.S. elections, U.S. interference in foreign governments, and the Chinese spy balloon saga.
Why did he allegedly post classified documents? Teixeira’s friends told reporters he does not view himself as a “whistleblower” in the vein of Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who claimed his exposure of classified materials was conducted to defend privacy rights and expose government surveillance overreach.
Instead, Teixeira evidently posted these documents because he wanted to impress and educate other members of his Discord group, especially the younger members, who he viewed as proteges. The poster identified in reports as Teixeira escalated his activities when he did not think the others were paying enough attention to his opinions and the material he was exposing.
Everything You Need to Know About the Alleged Pentagon Leaks
The FBI arrested alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Douglas Teixeira on Thursday and charged him with exposing national security secrets online.
He will have the book thrown at him and charged with the Espionage Act, which carries decades of jail time. Taibbi highlighted the dichotomy between civilian leaks and those from the political class or within the intelligence network, which you could argue are the same; they both support one another. When people like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Teixeira allegedly do it, it’s a full-blown crackdown. And when those in the intel community leak privileged communications, it’s an act of patriotism. The Trump presidency was fraught with intelligence leaks aimed at embarrassing or hamstringing his administration. Where is the Department of Justice investigations into those violations of law (via Substack):
Taibbi quickly noted how other outlets described Teixeira, from “gun enthusiast,” courtesy of The Washington Post, to a racist meme factory, which The New York Times highlighted.
Taibbi quickly noted how other outlets described Teixeira, from “gun enthusiast,” courtesy of The Washington Post, to a racist meme factory, which The New York Times highlighted.
Exclusive — Kash Patel Questions Emerging Narrative on Pentagon Leaks: ‘This Is an Extensive Cover-Up’
Patel, a former federal prosecutor, said he does not believe “for a single second, this guy — a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman — ran this operation alone.”
Patel said, first, the suspected leaker, Jack Teixeira, would not have had access to the information without someone within the Department of Defense (DOD) or the intelligence community giving it to him, providing it to him, or telling him it should be put out there. “It’s just not possible,” he said.
He said even though he worked in information technology (IT), he still would not have had access to the information.
“You can be the biggest IT person in DOD, and you are still compartmented off of the actual information. Almost never does an IT person need to know, as we say, the substance of the intelligence. Their job is to provide the secure informations systems around it to protect any disclosures,” he said.
“This is crazy sensitive stuff,” he said. “Ninety-nine percent of people who have a Top Secret/SCI clearance don’t have access to this information. And me, as the former deputy DNI and chief of staff of the DOD and publisher of the [Presidential Daily Brief], with the highest security classification, knows that, literally, there is not a lot of people in the U.S. that have access to this kind of intel. It’s done for a reason. So this doesn’t happen.”
It appears the mainstream media hunted down Jack Teixeira and in one fashion or another tipped the FBI as to just who this leaker was. Indeed, The Washington Post headlined this week:
That story revealing:
Got that? The Post went out of its way to publish “details of the leaker” on April 12th. The very next day, thusly informed by the media, the FBI swoops in with heavy duty military vehicles and heavily armed soldiers to arrest their 21-year-old man.
Notice anything here?
Can you name the leaker in that tale Greenwald recalls of Trump’s incoming national security advisor General Michael Flynn?
No? How about the leaker of the famous Pentagon Papers? Of course you recall Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was made into a media hero, lionized in print and film as a genuine hero. And just who was the president when that happened? That would be Republican President Richard Nixon.
And the leaker who brought an abrupt end to General Flynn’s career while embarrassing his incoming boss, Republican President Trump? No word on who that was. None.
Similarly, early in Trump’s term, an anonymous leaker released two transcripts of Trump phone calls with the then-President of Mexico and the Australian Prime Minister. The media showed no interest in finding the leaker.
And who is the President right now who is being embarrassed by young Jack Teixeira? That would be Democrat President Joe Biden. With the media in the form of The Washington Post, The New York Times and others in the media targeting Teixeira.
Here’s but one sample liberal media headline on Teixeira from, of course, NPR:
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That story revealing:
Got that? The Post went out of its way to publish “details of the leaker” on April 12th. The very next day, thusly informed by the media, the FBI swoops in with heavy duty military vehicles and heavily armed soldiers to arrest their 21-year-old man.
Notice anything here?
Can you name the leaker in that tale Greenwald recalls of Trump’s incoming national security advisor General Michael Flynn?
No? How about the leaker of the famous Pentagon Papers? Of course you recall Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was made into a media hero, lionized in print and film as a genuine hero. And just who was the president when that happened? That would be Republican President Richard Nixon.
And the leaker who brought an abrupt end to General Flynn’s career while embarrassing his incoming boss, Republican President Trump? No word on who that was. None.
Similarly, early in Trump’s term, an anonymous leaker released two transcripts of Trump phone calls with the then-President of Mexico and the Australian Prime Minister. The media showed no interest in finding the leaker.
And who is the President right now who is being embarrassed by young Jack Teixeira? That would be Democrat President Joe Biden. With the media in the form of The Washington Post, The New York Times and others in the media targeting Teixeira.
Here’s but one sample liberal media headline on Teixeira from, of course, NPR:
The Leaker and the Media
In the aftermath of the outing and arrest of Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, the 21-year old leaker of national security documents, over there at The New York Sun, journalist Matthew Rice headlines a very appropriate question.
FBI closes in on TWO DOZEN gamers in Pentagon leaker's Discord group - including RUSSIANS - as it emerges disgraced airman, 21, 'had been sharing files since Ukraine War started'
- The FBI is closing in on over two dozen potential suspects who were involved
- Investigation has revealed Teixeira may have leaked files since the war began
- The FBI has been interviewing friends of Teixeira from the Discord server
Teixeira was using a previously undisclosed chat group on social platform Discord, the newspaper reported, adding the group had about 600 members, according to the New York Times, citing online postings reviewed by the newspaper.
The FBI has been interviewing friends of Teixeira from the infamously named 'Thug Shaker Central' Discord service.
They've been asked how they were introduced to Teixeira, what kind of games they were playing and if they are foreign nationals.
Those who hung out on the Discord had previously said that some of the two dozen or so members were from Russia, Ukraine, mainland Europe, Asia and South America, according to the Washington Post.
At least one former member has had their electronic devices seized by the FBI but it's not clear if the FBI has confirmed foreign nationals were on the server.
Great so now this leak is going to become a Russian Intel Operation - the FBI cannot find Muslim Terrorists, but tehy will be coming soon to a discord server near you.
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A Discord user familiar with Teixeira´s online posts told the FBI that a username linked to Teixeira began posting what appeared to be classified information roughly in December. The person provided the FBI with basic identifying information about Teixeira, including that he called himself 'Jack,' claimed to be part of the Air National Guard and appeared to live in Massachusetts, according to the court records.
The person also told the FBI that Teixeira switched from typing out documents in his possession to taking them home and photographing them because he 'had become concerned that he may be discovered making the transcriptions of text in the workplace.'
That´s different from what posters have told The Associated Press and other media outlets - that the user they would call 'the O.G.' started posting images of documents because he was annoyed other users weren´t taking him seriously.
How the hell was Teixeira getting the documents out of the SCIF
Note that they're focusing on the whistleblower and not on the information he shared.
I loathe Democrats.
I loathe Democrats.
The solution is obvious. Shut down these gamer chat rooms.
I think I'll suggest that to Steny.
I think I'll suggest that to Steny.
Hijinx
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I wouldn't worry about that, they will probably place it on the same shelf they had Hunters lap top hidden on and forget about it./
The real story, however, is how corporate media organizations, rather than focusing on the content of the revealing documents themselves, chose to focus on finding out who leaked them.
Only after first working to identify Teixeira as the alleged whistleblower, which resulted in his arrest, both The Washington Post and The New York Times began to publish “exclusive” stories about classified information—some of it still unseen by the public—that had been leaked by Teixeira as if the discovery were their own.
As Hans Mahncke, my co-host on Epoch TV’s program “Truth Over News,” has noted: “Can you imagine Woodward and Bernstein spending their time writing about Deep Throat instead of Nixon? Because that’s what this is.”
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Only after first working to identify Teixeira as the alleged whistleblower, which resulted in his arrest, both The Washington Post and The New York Times began to publish “exclusive” stories about classified information—some of it still unseen by the public—that had been leaked by Teixeira as if the discovery were their own.
As Hans Mahncke, my co-host on Epoch TV’s program “Truth Over News,” has noted: “Can you imagine Woodward and Bernstein spending their time writing about Deep Throat instead of Nixon? Because that’s what this is.”
Teixeira Whistleblower Case Raises Troubling Questions
Turns out Texeira's "arsenal" is 3 Air Soft rifles.