{"id":140584,"date":"2023-04-28T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140584"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:03:09","slug":"security-long-gone-pentagon-shuts-barn-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140584","title":{"rendered":"Security Long Gone, Pentagon Shuts Barn Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJack Douglas Teixeira<\/em><\/p>\n

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was charged in the U.S. District Court in Boston with unauthorized removal and retention of classified and national defense information. A magistrate is deciding the conditions of his detention, if any.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said government records show that as early as February 2022, Teixeira “began to access hundreds of classified documents containing national defense information that had no bearing on his role” as an IT specialist in his unit.<\/p>\n

He was arrested by federal agents for allegedly posting documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues on a social media platform called Discord.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome (documents) featured detailed charts of battlefield conditions in Ukraine and highly classified satellite images of the aftermath of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian electrical facilities. Others sketched the potential trajectory of North Korean ballistic nuclear missiles that could reach the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

The embarrassing leak is causing some introspection at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Pentagon reviewing how it vets for security clearances<\/h3>\n

BY ELLEN MITCHELL<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pentagon is looking into how it vets individuals for security clearances after an alleged leaker of hundreds of pages of secret U.S. documents gained authorized access despite past issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe department is looking not only at our intelligence processes and procedures as it relates to security or sensitive information and who has that information, but also looking at the process by which we clear and vet individuals for security clearances, and that work is ongoing,\u201d Defense Department spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ryder noted that the U.S. military has \u201ca continuous vetting process\u201d for individuals that hold a security clearance, a process which includes \u201cautomated record checks that pull data from several different data sources including criminal financial and public records throughout an individual\u2019s period of eligibility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Teixeira also posted the extent American intelligence had penetrated the Russian military, that Egypt planned to sell Russia tens of thousands of rockets, and Russian mercenaries had approached Turkey to buy weapons to fight against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Why the Massachusetts National Guard has a need to know about NORK missiles comes to mind. When the story first broke the new Pentagon spox Air Force BG Pat Ryder emphasized the rules in place such as everyone that has a security clearance signs a nondisclosure agreement.<\/p>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n

Clearly a review is badly needed. Somehow the current security clearance process missed some red flags in young Mr. Teixeira’s very recent past. This seems to be epidemic in the entire Federal Government.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Big shoes to fill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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