Something vaguely familiar

Created
Sat, 15/04/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Sat, 15/04/2023 - 00:30
Wanted to impress his friends, did he? Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, has been arrested by the FBI as the suspect in the leak of hundreds of classified military document to the internet (Washington Post): The leak, probably the military’s largest in at least a decade, has revealed secrets about everything from gaps in Ukrainian air defenses to the specifics of how the United States spies on its allies and partners. […] The crisis has blindsided the Pentagon, which did not become aware until last week that secrets had for weeks been spreading online, and forced the Biden administration to have awkward conversations with allies and partners about explosive issues. The FBI did not descend on the Teixeira home until after The Post revealed numerous details about the still-anonymous leaker on Wednesday night, and after the New York Times followed up on Thursday by naming Teixeira. The FBI’s lag in response time may be explainable, but when they did after the press got there first, boy howdy! He’s from a patriotic family — and allegedly leaked U.S. secrets, reads the Post headline. The irony is not lost on you, Dear Readers, nor is it on Jeff Sharlet. “At this late date this headline—structured to suggest these facts are at odds—constitutes mind-numbing know-nothingism at best and more likely journalistic malpractice,” Sharlet tweeted this morning. The Guardian: Teixeira was the leader of an online chat group who uploaded hundreds of photographs of secret and top-secret documents, according to the New York Times.…