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US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall along with AF Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, answered questions posed by the Senate Appropriations Committee of the Air Force about Airman First Class Jack Teixeira regarding his charge of leaking sensitive, classified information to Discord.
Usually the questions focus by the committee deals with budgetary issues, but not this time.
Chairman Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) asked Kendall and Brown, “How could this guardsman take this information and distribute it electronically for weeks, if not months, and nobody knew about it?” This was the same question being asked since the leak was discovered.
Chairman Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) asked Kendall and Brown, “How could this guardsman take this information and distribute it electronically for weeks, if not months, and nobody knew about it?” This was the same question being asked since the leak was discovered.
This low-level, 21-year-old Airman was somehow privy to sensitive documents and the question is 'why' and who was responsible for what he sees.
From the Associated Press:
For top secret information across the military, there’s supposed to be accountable control officers who are responsible for recording active top secret documents and ensuring they have been either properly secured or disposed of, such as through a shredder or by burning them.
And, the intelligence unit to which Teixeira was assigned “is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission,” according to a statement from the Air Force.
Pending further review, “The 102nd Intelligence Wing is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission. The mission has been temporarily reassigned to other organizations within the Air Force,” the service said in a statement to The Associated Press.
From the Associated Press:
For top secret information across the military, there’s supposed to be accountable control officers who are responsible for recording active top secret documents and ensuring they have been either properly secured or disposed of, such as through a shredder or by burning them.
And, the intelligence unit to which Teixeira was assigned “is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission,” according to a statement from the Air Force.
Pending further review, “The 102nd Intelligence Wing is not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission. The mission has been temporarily reassigned to other organizations within the Air Force,” the service said in a statement to The Associated Press.
In addition, the Air Force is conducting a service-wide review of how each command handles classified information, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown told members of subcommittee.
Brown seemed to downplay the notion that there was a systemwide problem or even a unit-wide problem, saying:
“He had access to some aspects based on his job as a cyber administrator. He took advantage of that access.
However, Kendall told Congress that he has directed the Air Force Inspector General to look at “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong” at the 102nd Intelligence Wing. That’s in addition to a military-wide review ordered by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and an investigation by the House Armed Services Committee into the matter.
Brown seemed to downplay the notion that there was a systemwide problem or even a unit-wide problem, saying:
“He had access to some aspects based on his job as a cyber administrator. He took advantage of that access.
However, Kendall told Congress that he has directed the Air Force Inspector General to look at “anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong” at the 102nd Intelligence Wing. That’s in addition to a military-wide review ordered by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and an investigation by the House Armed Services Committee into the matter.
So this is not over.
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