The Pentagon Did What?

Assuming that it is true that some National Guard dweeb accessed and leaked NOFORN/Top Secret docs from the Pentagon, there are questions!

The revelation that a 21-year-old National Guardsmen was able to access top-secret memos prepared for the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and share them with his gaming friends is renewing hard questions about who gets security clearances, and how closely they are monitored. ...

No kidding.

It's the rough equivalent of the Bud Light "low-level marketing employee" thing but has markedly different consequences.

Plenty more at RedState.

The big story Thursday was the arrest of 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who allegedly leaked more than 100 pages of classified documents that exposed extremely sensitive information from the Pentagon regarding Ukraine, Russia, China, Israel, and documents produced by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

That story changed markedly through the day, though, and the sparse information we have about Teixeira raised major questions about how he could have possibly had access to such a wide-ranging tranche of information, why what was finally reported as the true story was so different from what had been published earlier, and who was pushing the disinformation?...

 This dweeb is an E-3, only two steps up from a floor-mop.  What the HELL was he doing with TS/SCI information?  And how did he get his hands on CIA docs?

RedState also notes that the stories changed a lot over the last seven days.  Hmmmmm.  Whoopsie!  He's not at Ft. Bragg, never was.   Oh.

A theory that we mentioned a while back on another forum:

...The most important part of evaluating a source is to determine their access- how do they know what they know? If they can’t plausibly explain it & prove it, but they are giving u good intel, it’s being given to u for a reason. A cyber transport systems tech E-3 is not given access to sensitive information pertaining to NATO partners, Israel etc. even with a top secret clearance. The JCS docs, maybe, but that too is a stretch. Teixeira needs to explain how he obtained the leaked information, step by step. There’s either much more to the story or we have major holes in our systems. Post Manning/Snowden I find that hard to believe based on my time in the intel community....

That's Joe Kent, a special-ops guy with intel adder.

Even more from Larry Johnson (ex-CIA) at Nappy's show.  Summary:  the story is BS.