Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ?<p>You're not considered adult enough to drink or sign papers or handle yourself until you're 21, but you can get a gun, join the military, and be trusted with Top Secret data ?<p>Also, how some bloke in a military base could justify he needed to access large quantities of documents about Ukraine?<p>Was he leading troops that were there ? He's a bit young to do battle plans, doesn't he ?<p>Under what extent can the US government be trusted to handle military secret ?<p>Either this poor guy was arrested to pretend to have a suspect, like in Farenheit 451<p>Or the US military is a band of rookies, who have had their 2nd leak since Snowden.
I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access.<p>As noted:<p>> In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1]<p>Apparently he was working in intelligence for the Air Guard, but that really doesn't explain the level of access he had.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/who-is-jack-teixeira-the-man-arrested-over-pentagon-files-leak" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/who-is-jack-...</a>
There is more of this story to come out. A better headline would name him as "suspect believed to be involved in leak." It is not at all clear he was solely behind the leaks; indeed its not clear why he would have had access to the documents in question at all.