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(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian)
It should be obvious through the events of the week that, a) there is too much government material that is classified and, b) there are too many people with the clearance to handle all of that material. So here we have Unlucky Jack Teixeira of Dighton, which is in that part of the Commonwealth (God save it! ) that we usually refer to as, “Down there by Rhode Island.” From the Washington Post:
According to the criminal complaint, a member of Teixeira’s online messaging group on Discord told the FBI that during one of the conversations, Teixeira said that he had stopped writing down the contents of classified documents because “he had become concerned that he may be discovered making the transcriptions of text in the workplace, so he began taking the documents to his residence and photographing them.”
The charging document also describes how that member of the group told the FBI that in February, after Teixeira posted a government document in their small group, the member reposted that image elsewhere on the internet — setting off a chain of events that led to the revelations of the past week, and a criminal case against Teixeira.
Teixeira, the complaint notes, has held a top-secret clearance since 2021 and has the authority to view a smaller category of highly classified material called sensitive compartmented access.
Teixeira is 21....
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