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2023-04-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Air Force base in document leaks case loses intel mission

[Air Force Times] The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mission from the base where the leaks took place, Air Force leaders said Tuesday.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Congress he has directed the Air Force inspector general to go look at the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira served and look at "anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong."

Teixeira, 21, was charged Friday in the U.S. District Court in Boston with unauthorized removal and retention of classified and national defense information. He is expected back in court for a hearing Wednesday.

The leaks have raised questions as to how a single airman could have removed so many documents without being detected, why there were not safety checks in place and how the documents could have lingered online undetected for months.

"How could this guardsman take this information and distribute it electronically for weeks, if not months, and nobody knew about it?" Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana asked the Air Force leaders testifying before a Senate defense appropriations subcommittee.

These are questions the Air Force is asking, too. For top secret information across the military, there’s supposed to be accountable control officers who are responsible for recording active top secret documents and ensuring they have been either properly secured or disposed of, such as through a shredder or by burning them.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-19 13:08|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top

#1 Yes, collective punishment, that's the ticket. Airman Teixeria is not the problem, the system is the problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-19 13:26|| 2023-04-19 13:26|| Front Page Top

#2 As I recall, our young miscreant’s father was something like the senior sergeant in that unit…

Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-19 13:58|| 2023-04-19 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 and nobody knew about it

As I recall, quite a bit happens in Intel shops that is ignored.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-19 14:27|| 2023-04-19 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Nothing like shutting the safe’s door after the horse is out. Or something. Update on the NAS Whidbey ex-E-5: according to today’s local paper she was discharged honorably. Had sone mental issues, divorce, other wackjob features. But not a BCD.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-04-19 18:26|| 2023-04-19 18:26|| Front Page Top

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