The chief suspect in the Discord leaks, Jack Teixeira, appears to have acted alone, but Air Force investigators have descended on a quiet corner of Cape Cod hunt down how documents left the air base.
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It is unclear how, despite those red flags, Teixeira was allowed to enlist in the Air National Guard and maintain access to classified information for so long. The military investigation that was directed by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall seeks to determine whether his unit complied with directives to safeguard classified information, officials told The Washington Post. They declined, however, to say whether it will examine Teixeira’s recruitment as well.
“It would be derelict of the Air Force,” she said, not to review how Teixeira was recruited.
Teixeira, in messages posted on Discord, indicated that he knew he should not be sharing classified information, even suggesting that he was aware that doing so could see him treated like Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. soldier who was convicted in 2013 of espionage charges after sharing a cache of classified documents with the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.using an acronym for “I don’t give a f---.” “All the sh-t I’ve told you guys I’m not supposed to.
But fewer Guard members are assigned to the base today, he noted, and those who are often commute, as Teixeira did, from long distances in part because of the skyrocketing price of real estate here.
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