Inside the Pentagon Leak: Is This Case More Significant than Edward Snowden? | Amanpour and Company

[@weston.weston]

Walter Isaacson is one of my favorite PBS interviewers.

[@hbattagl]

Political grooming works even better if you don't specifically talk about politics. Making young people ‘believe’ they are superior to others or it's funny to use racial slurs is the essence of racism. These cyber echo chambers, pandemics or not, are easily exploited by political intentions.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Very true. Getting young people to accept China's superiority and to believe the war in the ukraine was not caused by Biden.

[@volodymyrv5897]

He showed that the Pentagon is a brothel! The USA should thank Jack for showing the world the true inactive face of the Pentagon. For years, Russia has been hijacking US technologies in a hybrid way, although the US does not even suspect it. Russia needs a bureaucratic Pentagon. How long will it take for the USA to become Russia's slave? With its inaction, the Pentagon is speeding up this time.

[@gsgatlin]

He threw his life away to impress teenagers.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Gen. Petraeus resigned as CIA director after having shared classified information with his biographer/lover. 2 years probation. $100,000 fine.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

Thank you for good journalism

[@salinasdoubledutch]

Amazing journalism; how lucky we are to have access to him.

[@toddjones5742]

This topic exposes so much in the way of destructive tendencies going on fueled by a new societal infrastructure. Serious, without solution.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

The implication of Perjury by Generals and State Department officials appears to be something that could be prosecuted? If an authoritarian government lies to the public, are they still a valid group? If Kyiv is losing as is visibly presented daily on several websites, the Administration appears to be sponsoring a cover up. Does Wall Street Dictate Policy? Corruption is a serious charge. The West can not afford the financial support of the conflict any longer.

[@tekannon7803]

Jack Teixeira's superior officers would have known or had a feeling Jack was a security risk, because his behavior in the first minutes they were introduced to him would have--should have--sent off alarm bells. They are trained to spot outliers and when someone is even close to being extremist, it is a red flag in the spy business. Jack's background and off-work activities should also have been scrutinized. Why his behavior didn't cause suspicion to his superiors or to his parents is troubling. This is a major embarrassment for the intelligence community in America and the people who are responsible for security in the organization must be replaced. American intelligence agencies are getting to be known as a sieve; this is not good and one can imagine how much work it is going to take to get back trust from friendly nations and agencies who have been spied upon. But by far, the worst thing is that Teixeira's careless actions may have put secret agents’ lives at risk. Secretary of Defense Austin is not doing his job and he should resign over this incident. This spill of across-the-board intelligence agencies' secret data has placed a dark cloud over the Administration. American spy tactics are now known six ways from The Oval Office and above all else, this is inexcusable no matter what sort of spin that they are going to put on it and heads should roll. To carelessly allow government secrets to be viewed by a junior member of the intelligence community by someone just beginning in the business shows how naïve and incompetent those at the top really are, and one can imagine that others like Jack Teixeira have done and/or are doing the same thing but haven’t been caught yet. There is no excuse for this...

[@slimjimnyc270]

@TE'KANNON. What outlier? It's normal for someone in the military to like guns. It's also normal for an I.T. guy to like computer games and online chat. Belief in God is also within the norm. What else would you consider to be a red flag? Just curious and best regards.

[@ilovegoodsax]

​@@slimjimnyc270 Maybe actually LISTEN to the interview????🙄💯

[@gregknipe8772]

@@ilovegoodsax this would require an attention span beyond that of a a gerbil.

[@wakandawildman2043]

Sharing memes, liking guns, and believing in god are “red flags” 😂 I might be on the most wanted list

[@wakandawildman2043]

I can hear it now “Alt right extremist that went by the online moniker Wakanda Wildman” 😂

[@macsam8778]

Good to learn about this, it was being reported on the news, but this speaks volumes! And please know that, '"out of the over flow of the heart, the mouth speaks"'...if they said it repeatedly, they meant it! No matter what age 5-95, it will take hold! Thank you for reporting this.

[@marymccluer1630]

One news report said Teixeira had only a high school diploma. I don't see the value in having thousands of minimally qualified people reviewing highly sensitive intelligence. There has to be a more secure way to share intelligence.

[@pattirockgarden4423]

Dangerously irresponsible Pentagon. Why was this kid given clearance?? Alt right, racist, anti-semitic, Christian gamers?? This was grooming & recruiting!

[@hbattagl]

And this young mind has also been groomed by other alt right conspiracists, intentionally or not, in his private life perhaps…

[@imperialmotoring3789]

If he transitions like Bradley Manning he will get a full pardon.

[@user-ti3vp9mt3z]

As I understand, a 21 year old male often has the maturity of a teenager.

[@janheath728]

Just to be fair, it was Aric Toler at Bellingcat, working with Christiaan Triebert at NYT, who did the legwork and broke the story….not WaPo.

[@Uchetysx5]

Wait. What do you mean you? Media found this guy or the damn intelligence agency? Shame on all of you for your negligence.

[@georgesheffield1580]

I remember some "intel" people in the army in the early 70's that acted this way . We called them REMF's.

[@georgesheffield1580]

We often ignored their "Intel " as BS .

[@jacobschnberg5382]

SHAME ON YOU CIA ! --- HOW COULD YOU BE SO SLOPPY ON SECURITY ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@slimjimnyc270]

@Jacob Schønberg. It's because it is the Jurisdiction of the FBI (counterintelligence on U.S. soil) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The CIA (foreign intel) has NO jurisdiction over this.

[@kevinjenner9502]

The CIA IG verified on 7/31/2014 that CIA agents hacked the computers of US Senators investigating the CIA Torture Program, breaching the separation of powers. CIA Director John Brennan apologized…The CIA has always been above both domestic and International law.

[@jacobschnberg5382]

@@slimjimnyc270 SHAME ON FBI COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE THEN ! Intelligence ????

[@aaronwright6058]

A racist ANG guy that had access to that kind of information is exactly what our country doesn’t need! He is a fascist. Don’t sugar coat this.

[@ruthokelley5833]

…might be more ‘in the making’…of ‘a fascist!’ Still hard to believe that any 21 yr old would be allowed to view ‘top secret material’…human nature, being what it is!

[@EJ.7580]

Interesting 😮

[@bluest1524]

He leaked it to these twelve people, but is it out in the world now too? Did it escape out into the general internet?

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Why is this important information being hidden from us? Why is Mr. Vindman a "whistleblower" but this Guardsman is a "leaker"?

[@MrCiaranm]

Hmmm... Mr. Vindman was subpoenaed by Congress, and he apparently was truthful. We can assume he was truthful because his testimony aligned with Fiona Hill and William Taylor. Additionally, having access to classified information is not an excuse to allow Gov personnel to commit crimes or unethical behavior. Tying military aid to Ukraine to investigations into political opponents is unethical and violates laws applying to Gov employees.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Guantanamo Bay, where individuals were held indefinitely, without charge, while simultaneously being tortured by the CIA for years…The only individual sent to prison for the CIA Torture Program was the whistleblower himself, ex CIA agent John Kiriakou.

[@mkrawc1]

Well…Vindman was specifically revealing an individual illegal act. And it was. This little punk just wanted to randomly share information to impress his friends. He was sharing intelligence documents that revealed nothing except tactics of gathering information and the actual intelligence on the ground. Also, these were a bunch of racists little shits.

[@nessunodorme3888]

Vindman brought evidence of a crime, of corrupt mishandling of funds that Congress appropriated to the Ukrainian government, to his superiors and to members of Congress so they could respond appropriately. This other guy shared confidential information with unauthorized people secretly, for his own reasons and despite knowing it was against the law.

[@loopba]

we can all hope for the death penalty

[@har8397]

Lol is he saying they were just kids being kids??? That’s exactly how this shlt happens in the first place....

[@Heychinaa]

I feel like Shane covers the teens in a way from being viewed as racist. If they’re partaking in the conversations and sharing racist content, then they are racist. It’s very simple. Black children are rarely protected in the same way as white children.

[@nessunodorme3888]

He was putting their verbiage in context so you don't get dazzled by it and draw incorrect conclusions. In the same way, he also didn't make too much of the fact that these boys were gamers or help promote the idea their misbehavior was caused by playing online games.

[@cosmosofinfinity]

Certainly no heroic motivation and certainly no surprises in the info revealed, but good to have confirmation for, I suppose

[@MayThereBeWorldPeace]

What I am really curious about is if his family or coworkers were evangelical Christians. Maybe Qanon?

[@imperialmotoring3789]

I heard his brother is now a woman and they are staunch atheists that work at abortion clinics. He himself is non-binary.

[@MayThereBeWorldPeace]

@CCRider 🙁

[@Virtual-Media]

Very typical of the cult..

[@landotter]

Racist slurs are rampant in online gaming.

[@user-ti3vp9mt3z]

How sad

[@wakandawildman2043]

lol grow a backbone I’ve been called every name you could imagine online, I’ll probably be called more for making this comment. You people are we are failing,we tell everyone that they are special and they matter. But in fact not everyone special, someone says a mean thing and everyone loses their shit. Please don’t have children and if you do please don’t call the cops when those lil pussies get beat on

[@charliebarton]

Castration! Double castration!

[@nessunodorme3888]

What is an "Orthodox Christian"?

[@charliebarton]

Wow, for a story about how the government was lying to us about Ukraine, it’s fun to see these guys run the clock down by endlessly talking about Discord. Great journalism as usual from the NPR PBS crowd!

[@no-barknoonan1335]

Coming from the guy who called for "double castration".

[@jonwhitehead5426]

Remember, this type of journalism requires an audience to listen past the five minute mark.

[@ejtattersall156]

Except the government wasn't lying to us about Ukraine. You just made that up.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@ejtattersall156 How will General Milley get out of prosecution for Perjury?

[@Brent233]

How was the government lying about Ukraine? Can you back up your assertion with facts?

[@rahimamin4967]

The Guy should get the Nobel Prise!! Bravo, a very Brave man! This is the top of the IceBerg!! The People donnot trust the Criminal Goverments anymore!! The State-Dogs hunting on them😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@allthesmallthings1041]

Abolish PBS