Mainstream media, Congress, ignore blockbuster confirmation that Discord chat leak was innocuous
Prosecution of Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira DOA
Now we know what we all along suspected. The disclosure of classified information by Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was innocuous. There was no harm or threatened harm to the national security or foreign policy of the United States.
British defense secretary, Ben Wallace, acknowledged during a visit to Washington, D.C., about the banal leak: “There are things that might be a bit compromising, might be a bit difficult for a number of nations. [But] do I think it’s going to strengthen Russa? No. Is it going to weaken Ukraine? No. Do I think it’s damaged our relationship with the United States? Absolutely not.
The defense secretary added that the disclosures of Ukrainian shortages of arms, ammunition, and equipment would not impair its planned spring counteroffensive or the overall course of the war: “If you’re Ukraine and you’re sitting there fighting the war, you’re used to disinformation and leaks,” which in this case contained inaccuracies.
Defense secretary Wallace’s scoffing at the significance of the Teixeira leaks fortifies the time-honored truth that the intelligence community is an extravagant hoax. It spends $100 billion annually to collect, store, and analyze meaningless or commonplace information and in the process destroys the right to privacy for the juvenile amusement of spying. The intelligence community endures only because of the placebo effect. Congress and the American people feel safer (even when they are not) because of the faux appearance that the intelligence community perceives all the danger points ahead. They are never called to account for the hoax because the incriminating proof is kept secret (but for the occasional leak) and Congress is too supine and doltish to exercise oversight.
If the intelligence community stopped dragnet surveillance and began to read deeply into philosophy and the nature of man, we would be safer, wiser, and wealthier. My 100-book reading list is a starting point.