There is more of this story to come out. A better headline would name him as "suspect believed to be involved in leak." It is not at all clear he was solely behind the leaks; indeed its not clear why he would have had access to the documents in question at all.
US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
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Re: US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
#12Why on earth would this article list personal information about the suspects family, their location and their marital status?
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#13Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ? You're not considered adult enough to drink or sign papers or handle yourself until you're 21, but you can get a gun, join the military, and be trusted with Top Secret data ? Also, how some bloke in a military base could justify he needed to access large quantities of documents about Ukraine? Was he leading troops that were…
Age is not what matters here.
Re: US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
#14Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ? You're not considered adult enough to drink or sign papers or handle yourself until you're 21, but you can get a gun, join the military, and be trusted with Top Secret data ? Also, how some bloke in a military base could justify he needed to access large quantities of documents about Ukraine? Was he leading troops that were…
> Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ? This is meant to be rhetorical. Let’s just get that out of the way. The answer is…”just about all of them”. A 21-year-old can be four years into their career. A competent, responsible professional. You’ve completely missed the point.
It is an oversight failure of some kind though.
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#15I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access.
As noted:
> In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1]
Apparently he was working in intelligence for the Air Guard, but that really doesn't explain the level of access he had.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/who-is-jack-...
Re: US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
#16I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access. As noted: > In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1] Apparently he was working in intelligence fo…
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#17I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access. As noted: > In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1] Apparently he was working in intelligence fo…
He was an IT specialist, so it's easy to reason that he had access to a JWICS terminal or something and looked things up from there.
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#18Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ? You're not considered adult enough to drink or sign papers or handle yourself until you're 21, but you can get a gun, join the military, and be trusted with Top Secret data ? Also, how some bloke in a military base could justify he needed to access large quantities of documents about Ukraine? Was he leading troops that were…
We need to pump the brakes on the hyperbole. This isn't Snowden v2.0. This is all mid-tier analysis work, mostly just document production. There are no revelations of clandestine activities, no spies got burned, no new sources were revealed. Quite frankly what's been reported so far is mostly unsurprising. It's a bunch of powerpoint slides and such generated by a huge analyst bureaucracy. Most likely the guy got acce…
We don’t know if any spies are going to get burned or if any methods will be discovered and shut down. There was intelligence on specific things individual foreign leaders said in private. Combined with other info, that could definitely lead to spies getting killed. This is often the way spies are discovered.
Re: US arrests suspect behind leak of Pentagon documents
#19I think the really shocking thing about these leaks is the lack of partitioned access. As noted: > In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: “I hope this guy isn’t the leaker, because I’m gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides.[1] Apparently he was working in intelligence fo…
He was an IT specialist, so it's easy to reason that he had access to a JWICS terminal or something and looked things up from there.
This shouldn't imply access is unpartitioned.
I can look things up on a company Google Drive. Doesn't mean I can see everything!