Alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Douglas Teixeira is no whistleblower. But did he blow up Ukraine’s war effort?
The criminal case against Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air Force National Guard in Massachusetts, appears to have none of the ethical underpinnings or digital sophistication that were the hallmarks of the Snowden affair, in which files stolen from the National Security Agency were released to expose the activities of U.S. intelligence agencies.
It appears the documents were posted online in an attempt to impress, rather than to hinder an unjust cause or shame the world’s most powerful army into changing its ways. One document from February revealed that Ukraine’s air defences could be out of missiles within the month, if their munition stocks haven’t already been depleted. Others have revealed just how deeply embedded American spy agencies are in the administrations of allies as well as enemies .
The United States has a long history of dissidents going public with top-secret information for purpose that the leakers feel outstrips their professional oaths to secrecy. Contrast Felt and Ellsberg with suspect Teixeira, who the Times reported was known to his online pals as “O.G.” on a private social-media group dubbed Thug Shaker Central where members “came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes” and videogames.
There are already calls, in the wake of Teixeira’s arrest, to review and further restrict the number of those who can receive, read and transmit military secrets with the power to turn the tide of an active war.
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