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"In other words, maybe our intelligence community put together its own Operation Mincemeat, and the leaks flinging around 4Chan and Twitter are the fake plans on the corpse of an invented Captain William Martin, a.k.a. 'The Man Who Never Was.'"

This is my working theory, in the run-up to the Ukrainian spring offensive.

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"The FBI arrested Jack Teixeira Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, according to a US official familiar with the matter."

"Teixeira, 21, is a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. His arrest comes following a fast-moving search by the US government for the identity of the leaker who posted classified documents to a social media platform popular with video gamers."

"Teixeira was first identified by The New York Times Thursday ahead of his arrest as the leader of the group where a trove of classified documents was posted."[1]

It blows my mind that a young man in the national reserves just barely old enough to drink would have access to the leaked documents. I'm not one for conspiracies, but my eyebrow has shot up a bit.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/pentagon-documents-leak-04-13-23/index.html

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Chris J. Karr

I'm thankful that when I was in the "secrets" business, we had electronic, physical and procedural barriers to information I was responsible for controlling and protecting. Today, every soldier, sailor and airman can be provided with a communications device tailored to his mission and need to know. Very efficient information sharing except that a team of IT specialists is needed to allocate and control access to the information. Unless there is a requirement for multiple approvals, each of those specialists might have access to everything. I guess it's just a matter of how many passwords have to be compromised to allow leaks such as this. I suspect carelessness by higher ranking officials if documents can be copied by video devices.

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