Hero or Traitor?

[seer]

Arrest of classified documents leak suspect Jack Teixeira met with outrage: 'Incompetence is stunning'

Jack Teixeira had the highest-level security clearance granted by the federal government for top secret information

The arrest of a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in connection to classified documents that have been leaked online in recent months has been met with outrage as critics wonder how a young man could have such high-level access to national security information.

FBI agents arrested Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira on Thursday after U.S. intelligence documents that had critical information about the war in Ukraine and Chinese relations were posted on the chat app Discord. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Teixeira is being investigated for the "alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/arrest...tence-stunning

[rogue06]

Some awfully embarrassing (for the powers that be) information got leaked.

[seer]

Some awfully embarrassing (for the powers that be) information got leaked.

It looks like the Government has been lying to us about how well the Ukraine forces were doing.

[CivilDiscourse]

No, he's not a hero. He was, at best, a showoff. He wasn't leaking to expose information to the population. He was leaking to his clique of friends. The fact that said information started finding its way out onto the internet beyond them and may be embarrassing, doesn't change his actions.

If I go to shoot a random person on the street, miss, and accidentally kill someone about to murder another person...I'm not a hero, I'm a murderer that accidentally did good.

[seer]

No, he's not a hero. He was, at best, a showoff. He wasn't leaking to expose information to the population. He was leaking to his clique of friends. The fact that said information started finding its way out onto the internet beyond them and may be embarrassing, doesn't change his actions.

If I go to shoot a random person on the street, miss, and accidentally kill someone about to murder another person...I'm not a hero, I'm a murderer that accidentally did good.

So he accidentally did good? I mean now we know that we have Special Forces in country and that Zelenskyy was planning to strike into Russia.

[Sparko]

So why does this guy get the entire FBI showing up at his door arresting him, but Biden has had classified documents stored all over the place and his garage where anyone could have found them and nothing happens to him?

[seer]

So why does this guy get the entire FBI showing up at his door arresting him, but Biden has had classified documents stored all over the place and his garage where anyone could have found them and nothing happens to him?

Well he did have a lot of guns, and had bragged about that fact online. And they did find to guns.

[CivilDiscourse]

So why does this guy get the entire FBI showing up at his door arresting him, but Biden has had classified documents stored all over the place and his garage where anyone could have found them and nothing happens to him?

Because, as far as we can tell, Biden just had them in storage, poor as it was. That's vastly different than leaking them. It's the difference between a felon owning a firearm and a felon committing armed robbery.

[CivilDiscourse]

So he accidentally did good? I mean now we know that we have Special Forces in country and that Zelenskyy was planning to strike into Russia.

Honestly, that depends on whether you think the information leaked out was good for the public to know.

[seer]

Honestly, that depends on whether you think the information leaked out was good for the public to know.

I think that thing about Zelenskyy was important, it could create a wider war. Perhaps now that is off the table. And I don't like our Special Forces in country, that too could lead to a wider war.

[Bill the Cat]

I don't care if what he leaked was true or not. He damaged national security and stole classified information. He should be hanged for treason.

[CivilDiscourse]

I don't care if what he leaked was true or not. He damaged national security and stole classified information. He should be hanged for treason.

It wasn't treason. Treason has a clear definition, and this guy didn't do that crime. Other crimes? Yes, but not treason.

[rogue06]

It looks like the Government has been lying to us about how well the Ukraine forces were doing.

Interesting how this is getting reported in the MSM. They spin it as being the report overestimating Ukrainian casualties and loses.

[Sparko]

Because, as far as we can tell, Biden just had them in storage, poor as it was. That's vastly different than leaking them. It's the difference between a felon owning a firearm and a felon committing armed robbery.

So if he had stolen the classified documents and didn't release them you think he would not have been arrested?

And how do you know nobody got access to Biden's documents? They were stored where anyone could find them. Hunter could have photocopied them even.

[Sparko]

I don't care if what he leaked was true or not. He damaged national security and stole classified information. He should be hanged for treason.

Hanged? No. Arrested yes. Just like Biden.