The former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Kash Patel said on Friday that, even though Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira worked in information technology for an intelligence wing of the Air Force, he would not have been legally able to access classified information heโs being accused of leaking on a Discord server.
Several other methods were described by Patel on Breitbart News as ways for Teixeira to access the information:
ABC News also published a story on Saturday, which, surprisingly,, cited defense officials who echoed the same sentiment that Teixeiraโs job description does not equal โneed to know.โ
Many other details in the article support my previous comments.
Quoting again from the article:
“Itโs been suggested recently that Teixeira may not have acted alone:
A possibility that needs to be considered is that Teixeira was given many of the documents by someone else who did have access to them, and who wanted them to be leaked.
Considering the methodical manner in which the leaks occurred, Patel believes that possibility is very likely.”
Quoting again from the article:
“According to some, Teixeira worked on the computer systems within a SCIF, so he might have had access to these documents, and perhaps the intelligence wing he supported had the Presidentโs Daily Brief and the work product of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In Patelโs opinion, there is no way:
The compartmentalization of information is in addition to the classification level and the โneed to knowโ basis, Patel explained. While siloing information inside a corporation is bad, it plays a vital role within military intelligence.
Quoting from the article:
“Defense officials told ABC News that having a TS-SCI clearance is typical for Air Force personnel who in order to provide IT support might need access to classified spaces, computers and networks so they could do their jobs.
But the fact that you have a clearance does not mean you have access to everything at that level. That access is based on your โneed to knowโ the information for your job.”