CNN's Chief Law Enforcement Analyst John Miller breaks down the newest developments in the case against Air National Guardsman Jack Texeira, the 21-year-old charged with violating the Espionage Act for leaking classified and top secret Pentagon documents. CNN's Jake Tapper discusses the case with Trump administration defense secretary Mark Esper. #CNN #News
This is sad and disheartening. It just don’t make sense. I was searched leaving my job at Sears back in the day. How did this happen? God bless America
Snowden got stuff out, you just have to be more devilish than those who search you.
It doesn’t make sense that someone (other than an absolute idiot) would do this just to impress people online. This is EXTREMELY fishy and I guarantee there’s more to this than we’re being told.
Because soldiers are the most extremely trusted people in America.
I was searched leaving my local hardware store…
One word: Biden.
This is why you can’t take 30 boxes of classified material to your house. The FBI will DEFINITELY come looking for you. 🤣
@75greenfishhe didn’t give them back, he had them for years until they came and took them.
@Jackie Boy hahahahahahahahah WRONG
@Sean McCartney doing well and thanks for asking
@Sheila Millar FACT
Given that 1.5 million people in the US currently hold the same top-secret/highest level security clearance as the 21 yr old, I’m actually surprised we don’t hear about classified doc leaks every other week. I’m still waiting to hear how he was able to get SCIF-required documents out of the SCIF!
Because they don’t want to spend 20 years in federal prison
@knowledge 2020 I was stationed at Ft. Meade, MD
I’m actually not surprised. Because at the end of the day if America doesn’t do it, who will? So everyone understands how important, especially right now, America is to the world. And I like to believe 99.9% of the people in the military are doing the right thing each day, and are a positive examples to the civilians they protect.
Funny how many times has trump done the same thing and what has the FBI and all services done about it.Really
The same can be said for biden. Both Joe and hunter
@忠义 ur just thirsty for hunters linus
Imagine trying to impress a bunch of 16-year-olds on Fortnite you’re cool with top-secret information
He could have sold it for millions but the more noble thing to do is share it with your gamer bros
He’ll be able to impress his friends with all his prison tattoos in a few decades.
I really doubt that his friends were impressed after the first leaked document. Someone should have turned him in.
They are all traitors. They should all go to prison for years
@Lea Garner
Half of the discord server were foreigners.
Why would they care about being patriotic to another country such as the US.
Think of the millions of us (then) young guys who managed to serve in the military without betraying our country.
You didn’t betray your country, but you definitely betrayed humanity
*I JUST LOVE* how everyone in this comment section thinks they’re better than the kids today, yet you’re having the most pathetic arguments over who hates what president. Behaving like five-year-olds in a playground. My dad is bigger than your daddy. My daddy earns more money than your daddy and yet you have the audacity to look down on the kids today.
You created the kids today – why do you think the kids today are disappointment??
I’ll tell you, because you lot in this comment section, are terrible role models…!
When did he betray his country? He exposed something but the material where all over the place it was not meant as political just clout.
Someone at a drone facility, regardless of clearence level, shouldn’t have access to information having nothing to do with his/her job. The level of stupidity when it comes to the handling of true classified information is mind boggling.
Isn’t this guy in the IT dept? If he does not have access to the file, how does he retrieve it for you when you can’t find it?
How would you know?
@Jerry Green worked IT on and off since the DOS 3.0 days
@Jerry Green Common sense–not all that common these days. It makes absolutely no sense that a mere 21-year-old in a National Guard unit should have access to the broad range of classified information he published, let alone what he may have accessed. What business do you think he had to have access to classified information on U.S. on our sources within the Wagner Group? The Kremlin? What, if anything, does that have to do with U.S. drone operations. It’s utterly crazy that he had access to that information.
During my service, I didn’t even reveal potentially sensitive information to my wife, and she knew that, and never asked. She loved America.
also i met my girlfriend in highschool
@gen_x_dad
You asked if DT really loves America.
“He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
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True Americans think all military members are heroes.
Especially those heroes captured and possibly tortured fighting for our Country.
Mad respect for your service and your professionalism.
We need to require a personality test before people get certain levels of clearance. Too high on narcissism? No clearance for you
This kid came to me folks, and he looked-up with tears in his eyes and said; “sir, I’m gonna follow in your footsteps.” And I said; “not with that tie you won’t.” And being a generous guy, Oh so generous, I took off my ten foot tie and he sobbed as I coiled it in his arms. BIG arms, like in my premium super exclusive nft’s where they put my head on Tarzan’s body. big arms… SO BIG!
He’s from the side the good people are on. Goya Beans folks.
tee hee. so edgy wanna.
💀😂
Oh an I can so visualise his teeny tiny hands waving around as he said that. U do a great Trump mate!
Great post. Mini-short story.
The fact that the KGB propaganda machine is quoting Tucker Carlson directly tells you what side of history he is on.
More than that, they embrace him as a “colleague”.
The Russians really meant to say that Comrade Tucker Carlsen is more than just a colleague of the Red Menace. He’s a deep mole.
The USA never peddles in propaganda. I love that about America. I can count on absolutely everything being true. God Bless America!
Tucker’s on the The Right side. Ha, get it. The Right? Nobody goes left, everybody turns and goes Right because it is the Right thing to do with no stop lights. lol Right? I could go on all day. Actually if you had a clue that Tucker is twice the man as you, and all the rest of the posers you’d know he gives back helping many who cannot help themselves. Can you say the same? Or just a poser like the rest?
Friends: Not impressed
US Gov’t: Really, really not impressed
China & Russian: Impressed
Republicans: super impressed
I hope his “online friends” will be impressed with his 100+ year prison sentence.
@Dale Lore Who specifically said, and when, that this was a sentence “wished upon” him? Even so, there’s a real possibility that he may rack up some real prison time if he’s charged separately for each count under the Espionage Act.
@Dale Lore Oh, believe me @Dale Lore, Donald Trump will never get the amount of prison time I feel he deserves or he’d never see the light of day again.
Inmates are issued tablets now but he won’t be able to talk with the rest of society. Maybe he can land a job in IT while in disciplinary barracks?
@Dale Lore 21 is immature, but 21 is adult. when youre an adult, immaturity must be at your own expense, we have to draw a line somewhere where we acknowledge that consequences are more important than intention. if we dont, what next? ‘oh hes only 30, dont blame it on him’. thats whats going to happen in a few years. especially with the internet. when youre 15 and online, you talk to 15 year olds. when youre 25 and online, youre still going to be talking to the new batch of 15 year olds. if one isnt careful online, they wont mature. not everyone matures with age, some people rely on everyone else maturing to realise that they themselves are immature, but that wont happen if you trap yourself in a bubble.
This guy is arrested, meanwhile Trump is still free.
No wonder people say, there a two systems of justice in the USA.
Strange you don’t mention that the sitting President had classified from when he wasn’t President
@Sinbad it’s the level of classification and the sheer volume, that is the issue. Also, he handed them back. Trump is still saying they belonged to him.
If Russia referred to me as a “colleague” like they do Tucker Carlson, as an American who stands with The United States of America that would concern me.
Ok, Comrade!!!
It’s pretty bad when state run media runs a segment of your show every night because it tows the line that you want your audience to believe. I would be embarrassed if my views aligned with Russian state propaganda.
And your concerns would be justified.
😂😂😂😂
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s projection of a misguided kid showing off to his friends on Discord as some kind of hero of the extreme right is predictably insane.
@loriann1506 Both? You mean James Comey and Chelsea Manning?
He put so much people lives in danger.
@PresidentUSVI So did James T. Hodgkinson.
My two sons are in the Army, and both have a T.P.S clearance my husband works for the Air Force and has had a secret clearance for as long as I have known him.
He was 20 when we met. 22 when we got married.
I am not an American citizen, and in order for us to get married, OSI did a complete background check on all my family. Then again to get my legal residence card.
They didn’t mess around.
For this guy to have shared TPS information for bragging rights puts soldiers’ lives in danger.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is willing to put the lives of our soldiers in danger. I hope that people remember that the next time they vote for her.
And Tucker Swanson trust fund baby Carlson needs to be picked up as a hostile foreign agent.
@marsupius It isn’t illegal to tell what your clearance is, son… get a grip.
@David Gray I am not saying it’s illegal to do it. I am just saying it’s dumb to do it, and it is a betrayal if she didn’t confirm ahead of time they are okay with it.
@marsupius
Did I give you their names? NO.
Do you know my name Sandra STEVENS NO.
I was a young US Navy sailor when I was granted secret clearance. I can tell you I treated any information as if it was sacred because it was. Lives depended on it. Like the old saying goes, loose lips sink ships.
@FoxandRaven If he’s old enough to be given access to this information, he’s old enough to take full responsibility for the consequences of his actions.
I loved it when the Russian reporter said “I agree with our colleague Tucker Carleson!” 😅😂🤣
Books in any municipal library are better accounted for than classified documents in the US. At any given time any librarian can tell where a certain book can be found – on a particular shelf or checked out by such and such person till such and such time. It’s mind blowing how easy it is to share highly sensitive information with a whole wide world and get away with it.