#pentagon leak

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[vexwerewolf]

Like I can at least understand the ethos behind leaking classified military documents on War Thunder forums, you have a pet tank that you're trying to prove is The Best Tank, but what are Minecraft players going to do with a fucking NOC list

[ancaporado]

Press F to pay respects to a real one. I love how the regime consistently can't maintain order in it's own ranks. That said, if they find it a bit suspicious that literally every single leaker from Manning, to Snowden, to Teixeira have a "Ron Paul" search history and start implementing ideological tests for the military the gig is up and we will have a violent civil war, because these people are the only ones putting the brakes on for us from inside.

[bjtitus]

Top 10 Reasons Why Subscriptions Are Killing Gen Z

#1 - Your identity is revealed when you post classified intel

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[1stpoliticalcartoons]

[spokanefavs]

Jack Teixeira, 21, was charged with leaking secret Pentagon documents last month.

The Air National Guard member was preparing for a violent "race war," The Washington Post found.

The paper interviewed several of his close friends and reviewed unpublished videos and chat logs.

"...Teixeira, who viewed himself as a politically conservative Orthodox Christian, appeared to be preparing for a violent struggle against perceived adversaries, including Black people, liberals, Jews, gay and transgender people, the paper reported....

His online presence also revealed conspiratorial thinking and further racist thinking, including about Jewish people and Muslims..."

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[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Warmongers gonna warmonger

[nerdpoe]

Tim follows a youtuber who builds computers and teaches how to build them

The guy has a nice cadence when he talks, and he's always meticulous. Plus, sometimes he does som absolutely batshit insane crap.

He used a PDA to hack his college database.

A fucking PDA.

Tim actually learns things from the guy, and although Tim will never admit it, one of the security systems he uses was one he personally ordered from said youtuber. It's literally the best security system he's got. Naturally, it isn't meant for his Night Work, but it's great on his personal computer.

And that really says something about his level of trust for this Youtuber.

Then one day the youtuber shows off his own set up.

It's brilliantly RGB, and water cooled. But that's not water.

When the chat asks about it the youtuber laughs it off and says soemthing about highlighter dye and LED lighting, but Tim knows better.

That's Lazarus Water.

Youtuber Tucker Foley uses Lazarus Water to cool off his gaming PC.

Where the fuck did he get Lazarus Water?

[theculturedmarxist]

On a flight, reading about the FBI’s arrest of Jack Texiera, already dubbed the “Pentagon Leaker.” A quick review reveals multiple media portraits already out depicting him as a dangerous incel who shared his wares on Discord, a social media app where “racist memes” and “offensive jokes” flourish. Writes the New York Times:

Dark humor about race or ideology can eventually shape the beliefs of impressionable young people, and innocuous memes can be co-opted into symbols of hatred, researchers say.

Well, clearly we can’t have dark humor or innocuous memes! Gitmo cages for all!

The Washington Post went with “charismatic gun enthusiast”:

The New York Times summarized key points in the secret defense documents, which among other things suggested “Ukrainian forces are in more dire straits than their government has acknowledged publicly.” Reading what’s out there, it’s not easy to parse what’s a legitimate intelligence concern in reaction to these leaks and what’s mere embarrassment at having been caught lying, to the public, to would-be U.S. allies the documents show we’ve been spying on, etc.

You’ll read a lot in the coming days about the dangers of apps like Discord, or of online gaming groups, which counterintelligence officials told the Washington Post today are a “magnet for spies.” The Leaker tale will also surely be framed as reason to pass the RESTRICT Act, the wet dream of creepazoid Virginia Senator Mark Warner, which would give government wide latitude to crack down on “communication technology” creating “undue or unacceptable risk” to national security.

The intelligence community has itself been massively interfering in domestic news using illegal leaks for years. Remember the “Why Did Obama Dawdle on Russia’s Hacking?” story by David Ignatius of the Washington Post in January of 2017, outing would-be Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as having been captured in intercepts speaking with a Russian ambassador? That was just the first in a string of leak- or intercept-based news stories that dominated news cycles in the Trump years, involving everything from conclusions of the FISA court to supposedly secret meetings in the Seychelles.

When civilians or whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange (in jail for an incredible four years now), Reality Winner and now the “Discord Leaker” bring leaked information to the public, the immediate threat is Espionage Act charges and decades of jail time. When a CIA head or a top FBI official does it, it’s just news. In fact, officials talk openly about using “strategic leaks” as a P.R. staple. In a world where media currency is becoming the ultimate power, these people want a monopoly. It’s infuriating.

Watch how this thing will be spun. It’s going to get ugly fast.

[workersolidarity]

China's push to hijack enemy satellites could be 'game over' for US, national security expert warns

Unlike the majority of journalists and commentators, I do not buy for one moment the official US media and govt's official story about the recent Pentagon Intelligence Leaks.

All this began when reports started popping up a few weeks ago about a US intelligence leak released on a discord server. These leaks purported to show intelligence on the Russo-Ukraine War, including troop concentrations and casualty counts that differed from public statements by officials.

Soon after the documents became public knowledge, the MSM media went into overdrive to uncover the leaker, literally doing the work of the FBI for them, with the NY Times and CIA news-front-organization Bellingcat tracing the leaks back to a 21 year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira.

But how did a 21 year-old National Guardsman with a penchant for bragging on gaming discords get his hands on what appears to be high-level intelligence destined for high level officials including the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

Well, we know some things about how the US conducts its security protocols with regards to Military technicians who edit and put together intelligence for the Pentagon.

For one, it is standard protocol to investigate and monitor the various online profiles of Military service members with access to highly classified documents. This is done by multiple departments within the Federal Bureaucracy.

So I find it EXTREMELY not credible that an Airman First Class with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, with access to Top Secret Intelligence for whatever the purposes, could have been disclosing photos of Intelligence on a gamer Discord server without those agency's knowledge.

I find it far more credible that these agencies were in fact aware of Mr. Teixeira's penchant for braggadocio online and used him to release intelligence that they couldn't credibly release any other way.

The whole story was suspect from the beginning and after the leaker was revealed, it became obvious to me something else was going on here.

As far as I can tell, and this not an uncommon tactic during wartime, especially before an offensive, is that these leaks are part of a counterintelligence operation designed to mislead Russian military planners before the beginning of the coming Ukrainian counteroffensive. If I'm correct, they will likely be backed by various false telecommunications and radio transmissions designed to be intercepted by Russian intelligence.

This intelligence may suggest troop buildups in the wrong places, give wrong coordinates for ammunition depots, or it may misstate the size and direction of troop concentrations. Usually this is done in preparation for a large-scale offensive, especially, if as is the case with Ukraine, you've spent most of the last three months making public statements announcing your impending offensive.

The Russians, predictably, have spent that time building up fortifications and supplying troops in the areas they expect the offensive to come. At this point, it has become quite obvious the Ukrainian counteroffensive will be extremely costly for Ukraine, both in terms of military hardware and equipment, and also in terms of manpower, two things the Ukrainians can no longer afford to lose. The Pentagon is well aware of this and they're well aware of the likelihood that Russian Forces will go on the offensive again the moment Ukrainian troop formations are weakened, exhausted and running out of ammunition.

So what's the solution for the Pentagon?

Well if I'm right, these Leaks are designed to make sure at least some Russian troop formations are placed in the wrong places at the wrong times.

Their hope, if this succeeds, is to cut the landbridge connecting Russian-held territory in the Donbas with Crimea. At that point they will still be exhausted and running out of ammunition, but if US Counterintelligence can succeed in their manipulations and misdirection, enough troops and equipment may survive to hold and occupy the territory for long enough to call for a ceasefire and begin negotiations with the Russians before Russian Forces can go on the offensive again and retake the lost territory.

The reason I say this is because it's becoming more and more obvious that the US and NATO can no longer continue to procure enough ammunition and hardware to keep the war going beyond this offensive, and leaders in Washington and the Pentagon are already turning their attention towards China and ratcheting up tensions over Taiwan. They cannot fight both Russia and China, and when it comes down to it, China is the larger threat to US Hegemony.

And that brings me to this article on Fox and more confirmation to me that this Intelligence leak was on purpose.

Apparently, some of the intelligence leaked had nothing to do with Ukraine or the Russians at all. Some of the intelligence is apparently about China.

Specifically, the intelligence claims China is developing its cyber capabilities to include the ability to hijack or destroy enemy satellites. Needless to say this technology could be devastating to US or NATO forces ability to operate it's Forces, command the seas and defend Taiwan in close coordination in the event of war.

It seems very convenient that once again, this leak includes intelligence that, contrary to hurting US interests, actually reinforces the US narratives around China and Taiwan.

The article goes so far as to claim China is only investing in cyber and space technology in order to "disrupt, degrade and destroy US space capabilities".

The article quotes John Hannah, former Vice President and noted War Criminal Dick Cheney's National Security Advisor, as saying, "The future of warfare, one of the most contested domains, is going to be space. Space, in essence, is the new high ground. [The] country that controls space and the next battlefield is effectively, I think, got the best chance of actually winning the war,"

"If China is able to knock out our ability to see what the enemy is doing, our ability to exert command and control and communications between our own forces, it's virtually game over for us on the battlefield here on Earth," he continued.

The real goal over the coming year or two will be to wrap up the Ukraine War and ramp up a whole new one with China over Taiwan, using proxies, sanctions, preventing technology transfers, and direct confrontation on the South China Sea in an effort to contain and slow China's rise.

These Neocons in the Biden Administration just hop from one crisis to the next, crushing and destroying anyone and anything in their wake, regardless whether they pose any actual threat to the US Empire or whether they're threats are just perceived in the minds of the war planners.

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[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Alleged Pentagon leaker and former Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was indicted by a federal grand jury in Massachusetts on Thursday, charged with six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

Investigators said in court documents that the 21-year-old Teixeira used his position as a systems administrator in the 102nd Intelligence Wing in the Massachusetts Air National Guard to obtain and then illegally disseminate classified military information to members of an online messaging platform. Since July 2021, Teixeira held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance, the indictment said, and received training on the proper handling of classified information.

Teixeira was arrested in April and charged via criminal complaint after dozens of classified documents — including many reviewed by CBS News — were discovered in a Discord group, an invitation-only forum where members can post anonymously. Those records were later widely shared online.

Teixeira pleaded not guilty to the charges on the criminal complaint earlier this year, but has yet to be arraigned on the newly unsealed indictment.

The indictment revealed he allegedly retained and transmitted classified documents including information "regarding the compromise by a foreign adversary" that was marked top secret, material related to the provision of equipment to Ukraine, and "a government document discussing a plot by a foreign adversary to target United States forces abroad." That document allegedly included specific information about where and how the attack on U.S. forces would occur.

Prosecutors say in some instances, Teixeira transcribed the information he was leaking, and in other instances, posted photographs of the documents.

In arguing for Teixeira's pretrial detention in April, prosecutors alleged in court documents that Teixeira sent more than 40,000 messages on Discord between Nov. 1, 2022, and April 7, 2023, some of which contained sensitive government records. He allegedly began accessing the classified information in February 2022 and later posted the information online.

Investigators said Teixeira acknowledged on multiple occasions in Discord messages that he had posted classified material and had even asked other members to specify which countries or topic areas interested them most.

In November, a member of the group asked him, "Isnt that shit classified," referring to information Teixeira had posted on the forum. Teixeira allegedly replied, "Everything that ive been telling u guys up to this point has been…this isn't different," court documents revealed. The next month, investigators allege he wrote about the sensitive information he obtained from work: "I tailor it and take important parts and include as many details as possible."

Investigators also captured conversations that showed Teixeira instructing others in the Discord group in April to "delete all messages," alleging he took a series of steps to obstruct the investigation into the leaked Pentagon records.

"[i]f anyone comes looking, don't tell them shit," he is accused of writing to one user.

Prosecutors revealed earlier this year Teixeira was suspended from high school in 2018 after a classmate heard him talking about weapons and Molotov cocktails. He entered the Air National Guard in September 2019 and worked as a "cyber transport systems journeyman," according to Pentagon records.

The violent rhetoric continued after Teixeira began his military service, prosecutors said, alleging that during this period, he posted that if he had his way, he would "kill a [expletive] ton of people" because it would be "culling the weak minded."

Court documents said that in February, he told a Discord user that he was tempted to make a type of minivan into an "assassination van."

In previous court filings, Teixeira's legal team called the government's allegations "hyperbolic" and blamed other members of the Discord chat for the widespread dissemination of the documents.

"The government's allegations in its filings on the evening of April 26, 2023, offer no support that Mr. Teixeira currently, or ever, intended any information purportedly to the private social media server to be widely disseminated," his public defender wrote.

Teixeira has since obtained another attorney, Michael Bachrach, who declined to comment.

[fabseg-reader]

Miraculous fan-ship: "Lovepentagon" (Marinette/Ladybug+Cerise/Lila/Chrysalis)

I've redrawn the Lovepentagon/Hatepentagon (between Marinette/Ladybug and Lila/Cerise/Chrysalis).

Marinette/Ladybug and Lila are enemies (until Cerise ceases to play her Lila role after her exposure)

Marinette and Cerise are friends but Marinette had doubts about Cerise while Cerise has a "crush" on Marinette

Marinette sees Chrysalis as a public danger for Paris

Cerise/Chrysalis seems to be "polyamorous" towards both Marinette and Ladybug (spoiler: she's aware the latters are the same person)

Ladybug and Chrysalis have Frenemy relations. Meanwhile, Ladybug keeps an eye on Chrysalis for make her become a superheroin while Chrysalis tries to corrupt Ladybug.

The name for this ship: Cerisette.

Alternate name(s): Lilanette, Chrysabug, Chrysanette, Ceribug, Ladycerise, Lilabug, Cerinette, Marise

The original post here

Bonus:

I've found this song as I've taken it as anthem

[1stpoliticalcartoons]

[zzzzblogzz]

we may or may not live in the worst timeline, but we certainly live in by far the most entertaining one.

The following is the known itinerary of these docs:

1. Pentagon, the most secure and heavily fortified intelligence agency in the world

2. Discord server named 'Thug Shaker Central'

3. Discord server named 'Minecraft Earth Map'

4. MONTHS LATER: 4chan & Telegram; which is where they were finally discovered by 'officials'

The guy who posted them has been arrested, AND I CANNOT WAIT to see this case play out

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Warmongers don't care about right from wrong