There’s No Way the Top-Secret Leaker Could Have Acted Without Help

In the aftermath of the leak of TOP SECRET information showing how the government has consistently lied to the American people about progress in the War in Ukraine, the FBI arrested a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira and accused him of being the leaker.

We’ll let justice take its course in that case. Still, it’s difficult to believe that Teixeira acted alone or even that he was the prime mover in this leak. The information contained in the leak was not just TOP SECRET but was the most sensitive information held in the entire intelligence community.

The damage done went far beyond the content (although that was extremely damaging). The leak also potentially revealed sources and methods.

Some of the information might only have come through certain channels, which points a finger at individuals in those channels who might have provided the information in the first place. This compromises those spies and could lead to their torture and death.

The information made it clear that Ukraine is losing the war, is almost out of ammunition, and is suffering a casualty ratio of 7 Ukrainians killed for every Russian killed – an impossible ratio to withstand much longer. For those reasons and more, this is not the kind of information that is casually tossed around even inside TOP SECRET channels, as reported in this article.

Having a TOP SECRET (TS) security clearance is just the beginning of your ability to access information. I know this from my own experience, having had the highest-level clearances.

Beyond TOP SECRET, there are numerous intelligence channels such as signals intelligence, satellite intelligence, human intelligence, etc. all of which have to be approved separately alongside the TS approval. Even at that point, you have to demonstrate a “need to know.” You can’t just roam around the intelligence archives at will.

Your need to know is signed off by a security officer who looks at your background in relation to the information you are requesting and decides if your request is relevant. Beyond that, if the information requested is maintained by a particular program (such as “Persia House,” which ran collections about Iran) you may have to be “read in” to the program by a security officer or program director attached to that program.

Virtually none of these steps would have been permitted to a low-level Air National Guardsman. Even if his job was technical (which might have allowed work on systems with highly sensitive information), that information would have been walled off in the course of technical repair and configuration work.

In short, this case is far from over. Others must have been involved, and there’s a need to identify those others and assess their motivations and hidden agendas.

It seems likely that the information was passed to Teixeira by someone much higher up in the intelligence community. The ultimate leaker was probably a senior military official who knows Ukraine has lost the war. The motivation would have been to clear the military of responsibility and point a finger at the warmongers in the State Department and White House, who are the parties most responsible for this fiasco.

That would include Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, and Susan Rice. (It’s hard to blame Biden because he’s non-compos mentis). The war is not over, but Ukraine’s defeat is in sight. The fighting inside the Beltway has just begun.

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