A leak this week from a 21-year-old Air National guardsman has been all over the media and the leaker was arrested yesterday with cameras rolling.
Word is that Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira was trying to win an argument against his online buddies and released the classified intel to do just that. I hope it was worth going to prison for a long time, if not the rest of his life.
Thanks to Jim Geraghty, here’s the secrets Teixeira released to the world:
A 21-year-old Air National guardsman had access to some of the biggest secrets of our intelligence community, including, but not limited to, reports stating:
- The Ukrainians are on a pace to run out of air-defense missiles by May; the document stated that the Ukrainians’ “ability to provide medium range air defense to protect the [front lines] will be completely reduced by May 23. UKR assessed to withstand 2-3 more wave strikes.”
- Western plans to arm and train Ukraine’s army, “including the status of nine Ukrainian brigades, the amount of armor and artillery in each one and the precise number of shells and precision-guided rockets Ukraine is firing each day.” As The Economist surmises, “If accurate, the data could allow Russian military intelligence to identify the specific brigades that have probably been tasked with breaching Russian defenses at the outset of the offensive. That, in turn, could allow Russia to carefully monitor those units to assess the location and timing of an offensive. One slide indicates that Ukraine’s 10th Corps is likely to command the operation, which will now make its headquarters an obvious Russian target. Another shows when the muddy ground is expected to harden sufficiently for heavy armored vehicles to pass over.”
- U.S. intelligence agencies have “penetrated nearly every aspect of the Russian intelligence apparatus and military command structure.”
- U.S. assessments that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is likely to face significant challenges and achieve limited gains in the coming year.
- The Mossad encouraged Israel’s anti-Netanyahu protests.
- “China approved provision of lethal aid to Russia in its war in Ukraine earlier this year and planned to disguise military equipment as civilian items.”
- “The China’s People’s Liberation Army had . . . successfully tested a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile called the DF-27.”
- As CNN described, “One document attributed to a signals intelligence report said that Jordan’s Foreign Ministry in late February planned to assure Beijing about its interest in a continued economic relationship, after Beijing reportedly complained that Chinese companies were not involved in the country’s 5G network rollout. Another said Nicaragua was negotiating with a Chinese company for the construction of a deepwater port on its Caribbean coast, attributing this information to signals intelligence.”
- “President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi of Egypt . . . a major recipient of U.S. aid, recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia.”
- Information about secret conversations at the highest level of the South Korean government, revealing that the U.S. is intercepting the electronic communications of President Yoon Suk Yeol and his top aides.
- Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán identified the United States as one of his party’s “top three adversaries” during a “political strategy session” on February 22.
- Russian intelligence officers bragged that they had “convinced the . . . United Arab Emirates ‘to work together against US and UK intelligence agencies.’”
In this entire leaker story, what I didn’t see coming was Marjorie Taylor Greene running to Teixeira’s defense:
But he wasn’t doing this to expose the truth to the masses. He was trying to win an argument among his minecraft peers.
What I really hate about Greene’s quick response is that she’s now given the left a Republican distraction from the actual story, which they will gladly take in order to bash Republicans.