Saint or Sinner? Feds Arrest Suspect in Leak of Classified Documents

What happens when Americans find out the truth of a matter and not gaslighted with fake news? Is it better for the government to lie to us if it will cost dearly in many ways? When are secrets too secret? Will the suspect suffer the same fate as Assange? Snowden? Reality Winner? Just to name a few. So was the leaker a Saint for giving us the unvarnished truth? Or a Sinner that burned sources probably and will probably deny the same ability to  gather further intelligence. Perhaps costing lives.

I have struggled with this topic before here at Bunkerville. And there is a strangeness about all of it.

Why anyone who is anyone wants Julian Assange dead

May 15, 2019

“Everyone” in this case includes every major newspaper that published and received awards for publishing Wikileaks material; all major U.S. televised media outlets; and all “respectable” U.S. politicians — including, of course, Hillary Clinton, who was rumored (though unverifiably) to have said, “Can’t we just drone this guy?”

Mustang who posts here from time to time gave it a shot as well. He offers his take:

Julian Assange – About the Law

April 13, 2019 

How about Snowden?

Will the real Edward Snowden please stand up and who are your handlers?

September 20, 2016

Among the questions is how a contract employee at a distant NSA satellite office was able to obtain a copy of an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a highly classified document that would presumably be sealed from most employees and of little use to someone in his position.

A former senior NSA official said that the number of agency officials with access to such court orders is “maybe 30 or maybe 40. Not large numbers.”…

And not us forget Reality Winner. Sentenced to about 5, did about 3 years.

Ms Reality Winner faces ‘longest sentence’ for leaking NSA Classified Docs to Media

August 16, 2018

This is an odd thing. Cue up the conspiracy theories.

On a strange and bizarre note, why did the contractor she was employed by just since Feb 2017, for the most part only hire ex military women in their 20’s?

Interesting to note also that she gave the info to The Intercept who is run by the same guy that Snowden gave stuff to. Maybe Chelsea Manning can explain it. Better yet, in just four short months on the job she just happened to come upon and leak the story that The Intercept published about Russia’s so called interference in last year’s presidential election. Her bailiwick was Afghanistan intelligence. Just two cute by twice.

Staring to see this whole thing as a bit strange?

Now enter the latest leaker. One Jack Teixeira, 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

Rolling Stone: Their take on the happening:

Aric Toler, a researcher for investigative news outlet Bellingcat, first discovered that the Discord “Thug Shaker Central,” a home for fans of the YouTube influencer “Oxide,” had originally hosted the leaks. One member of the server told Bellingcat that the original poster of the classified material took on a role as an administrator at the server, where users freely posted racist content and discussed conservative politics.

Many young members of the Thug Shaker Central server held the leaker, dubbed “OG,” in high regard and viewed him as a father figure, according to The Washington Post. Former members of the server told the Post that OG had posted a trove of classified documents for months and that Thug Shaker had played host not just to Americans but users from Russia and Ukraine. 

Martha MacCallum’s take with questioning – she ends with “it’s a very very strange story.”

Fox News host Martha MacCallum has the latest on a newly surfaced picture of 21-year-old guardsman Jack Teixeira and footage of his arrest in the leak of classified documents on ‘The Story.

Saint? Tucker gives it his best and leaves many of us in an uncomfortable state of mind. Truth that comes at great cost or is it better to remain ignorant of the truth of the matter.

What is your take? The very best of the swamp.