Media reports following last week’s arrest of a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman for disclosing classified information were designed to send out one crucial message—Jack Texeira was not any kind of hero of free speech. Rather, outlets like The Washington Post insisted, he fits the profile of an enemy of the regime. “‘I would definitely not call him a whistleblower,’” one of Texeira’s onetime internet friends told the Post. “‘I would not call [Texeira] a whistleblower in the slightest,’ he said, resisting comparisons to Edward Snowden, who shared classified documents about government surveillance with journalists.”
Thus, once again, the Democrats have turned a national security issue into an instrument to serve party interests.
The material Texeira leaked was apparently taken from regular briefings prepared for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and other senior Pentagon officials. The young airman had a top-secret security clearance, but multiple sources have told me that even a TS clearance wouldn’t guarantee him access to the kinds of documents he leaked. That’s because top secret information is often further sectioned off under the classification of sensitive compartmented information (SCI), which can only be accessed by individuals who both have the appropriate clearance level and are “read in” to the particular SCI compartment. The official narrative surrounding Texeira has so many gaps that many of the former military and intelligence...
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