Posted on Apr 14, 2023
Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira to appear in federal court Friday
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Talk about an incredibly stupid thing for this kid to have done. This Airman has essentially ended a very promising career, all so he could stroke his own ego within his online groups. While he should absolutely be held responsible for his actions, serve time, and lose his clearance/role in the ANG, there also needs to be an overhaul within the DoD (not just the ANG) in information security.
Yes, he was a cyber transport specialist, which requires TS/SCI access for the unit and systems he likely worked on. But that does not mean he should have unfettered access to "need to know information," much less the ability to exfil it from the systems he accessed. His clearance is necessary mostly because he might be exposed to that information in the performance of his duties. But there were all kinds of failures here. Where was his supervisor and/or his peers in all this? Did he complete his TS/SCI training? How did he manage to exfil the information out of a secure system/facility? What cyber security safeguards failed? This should have been noticed/caught long before it found its way into a chat room.
One thing is for sure. Folks in the IC with access to these systems/information can expect a whole new round of training, hopefully a new review on access levels and information security safeguards, and unfortunately bigger fights to get the access some of you require. Since I left that world a year ago, I am thankful I do not have to go through what should be coming. The pucker factor is about to get really high if it hasn't already.
Yes, he was a cyber transport specialist, which requires TS/SCI access for the unit and systems he likely worked on. But that does not mean he should have unfettered access to "need to know information," much less the ability to exfil it from the systems he accessed. His clearance is necessary mostly because he might be exposed to that information in the performance of his duties. But there were all kinds of failures here. Where was his supervisor and/or his peers in all this? Did he complete his TS/SCI training? How did he manage to exfil the information out of a secure system/facility? What cyber security safeguards failed? This should have been noticed/caught long before it found its way into a chat room.
One thing is for sure. Folks in the IC with access to these systems/information can expect a whole new round of training, hopefully a new review on access levels and information security safeguards, and unfortunately bigger fights to get the access some of you require. Since I left that world a year ago, I am thankful I do not have to go through what should be coming. The pucker factor is about to get really high if it hasn't already.
Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira to appear in federal court Friday
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Just in case you may have forgotted... “Jack Teixeira repeatedly shared classified national defense information on a social media platform in an attempt to impress anonymous friends on the internet – instead, it landed him a 15-year sentence in federal prison,” plus, he is not eligible for parole as the sentence includes three years of supervised release following the prison term. However, he will still be a young man (38 years old) when he is released...
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I am now sure whether to believe the story the media has posted . Like most on this site I had a clearance for 33 years and can not believe this young airman had this much access to so much classified . With the rules laided out where you were not left alone by yourself I believe someone helped this young man break the law for a reason .
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CMSgt Donald ONeill
Thanks Maj. for you input I am still trying to wrap around this story . What borthers me is he came from a long line of military people who should have known better . And he did not try and sell and give to our adversaries .
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
CMSgt Donald ONeill I understand Chief… It simply doesn’t make sense to me coming from a long line of military in my own family. But you and I both know we get our share of extremely bright Airmen, and unfortunately those who are not so bright. But I can also say I have come across several Airmen expressing very similar feelings about the military and questioning why they chose to join. In one specific example I had 6 Airmen expressing their intent to leave the Air Force. They came to me in a deployed environment and I can only speculate their leadership back home wasn’t engaged, wasn’t challenging them, wasn’t keeping them engaged on meaningful work and showing them how they are making a difference. At the end of that deployment I had 5 of them rethinking that intent to separate and instead looking for bigger and better opportunities. Several years later one of those Airmen worked with me yet again while deployed to Bagram in the early days of OEF. I was proud of him as he learned so much and helped me make a difference supporting our A-10 and Medevac ops through comm support. So again I see a potential leadership failure here with is ANG Airman (among a few other issue I take with where the Air Force is going these days). There’s very little camaraderie in the Air Force today and too many leaders both NCO and Officer are too concerned about covering their own ass, that they aren’t looking out for those they are supposed to be leading.
So we’ve recently come off of COVID, where Airmen from an typically introvert world (i.e. cyber) are propelled into even more introvert environments.
So now he has his new click and in order to appear more important and/or worldly, he makes a huge mistake in judgement. One he unfortunately cannot recover from compared a lot of the very stupid things some Airmen do.
So we’ve recently come off of COVID, where Airmen from an typically introvert world (i.e. cyber) are propelled into even more introvert environments.
So now he has his new click and in order to appear more important and/or worldly, he makes a huge mistake in judgement. One he unfortunately cannot recover from compared a lot of the very stupid things some Airmen do.
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CMSgt Donald ONeill
Maj my instincts tell more is going to come out as a young man I started my military career in the Special Forces 63-66 went to Vietnam 65-66 . There is where i learned more about government than I wanted to . All the the best my friend .
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1SG(P) Dean Mcbride (MPER) (SPHR)
CMSgt Donald ONeill - The long line of military refers to a step father who retired from the same ANG unit he was assigned to. Tieseria's biological fater divorced the mother and there is no available record on how long the step father was married to Eieseria's mother.
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