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Last night in comments Sebastian asked:
Thank you for posting, Adam. I don’t know how you do this. I had to take a break for my mental health, this war is grinding me down and making many terrible memories surface.
Thank you.
First, you’re, as well as everyone else, most welcome and thanks for the kind words. Second, self care is important. Third glad you’re doing better and that you’re back. Now to answer your question, doing these is the least I can do. While I don’t go into it here, a few folks know that I actually volunteered for the International Legion shortly after it was announced in 2022. They finally got back to me last month. I am now too old to join given the age restrictions they’ve put in place. Last year I also worked some of the connections of the senior leaders I’ve worked for to offer my expertise and experience in other ways and the one solid contact we had dropped off of comms after a few weeks last May. So while I’d love to be able to do more to help, to do so directly, and I’ve crossed every i and dotted every t trying to do so, which allows me to sleep at night knowing I’ve made every effort, at this point buying shirts from St. Javelin, Patron stamps from UKRPOSHTA, and doing these updates is both all I can do and the least I can do. So every night I’ll be here.
And one from commenter Anonymous at Work:
For the leak, TSCI information in the hands of a 21-year-old Air National Guard? I know there’s scads of “classified” material and all, but did the Pentagon have him handling such materials because they needed the hands? Doesn’t that beg the question, “Do you need so much classified material that you have this sort of thing happen?”
My understanding from the reporting about Airman Teixeira is that his job was maintaining the computer and IT systems for an all source intel shop that produced product for senior leaders across the Defense enterprise. As such he would need a TS/SCI not because he himself would be doing the analyses or even reading them, but in case he was helping someone get their system to operate correctly and something classified came up on the screen. The question, from what I’ve seen of the reporting, is how no one who was supposed to be monitoring the classified printers, as well as the workspace, noticed that he was printing stuff out, placing it into his pockets or bag, and walking out with it. And to clarify something from what Cole wrote yesterday, no he did not take his cell phone or a camera in and take pictures at work. He printed the stuff out, took it home, put it on his mother’s kitchen island, and photographed it there. Then he uploaded it to the Discord server. Finally, this isn’t actually a leak. Teixeira didn’t steal this stuff to give it to a journalist or a foreign power or non-state foreign actor. He took it to make a point to a bunch of teenagers. It’s not really spillage either. Frankly, I’m not sure we actually have a term for this kind of disclosure of classified information.
Here’s President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
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