Jack Teixeira Should Have Been Stopped Again and Again
How did the worst leak in a decade take almost a year to be detected?
An old truism says that logistics wins wars—a recognition that outcomes on the battlefield are a result of the systems that underpin the military. Similarly, the still-mushrooming fiasco of Jack Teixeira’s disclosure of national secrets is not just about a single service member or incident, but a cascading failure of systems within the armed services.
Teixeira, who was arrested in April, is accused of using his position in the Massachusetts Air National Guard to share top-secret intelligence with friends in the social-media forum Discord over the course of months—including sensitive information about the war in Ukraine and discussions with other governments.
[Kori Schake: A trivial motive for a dangerous leak]
Prosecutors’ filings
