“It’s just not possible” for a National Guard information specialist to have access to the US intelligence he allegedly revealed, Kash Patel said.
could not have acted alone — suggesting the 21-year-old is merely the patsy in a much wider intelligence breach, according to one of former-President Trump’s top national security aides.
“Almost never does an IT person need to know, as we say, the substance of the intelligence,” Patel, a onetime Pentagon chief of staff, told the conservative outlet. “Their job is to provide the secure information systems around it to protect any disclosures.” Patel said he does not believe “for a single second” that “this guy — a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman — ran his operation alone.”Teixeira was most recently based at Joint Base Cape Cod.Instead, he said, the explosive revelations are likely part of “an Assange-style operation” — referring to the WikiLeaks founder whofor helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files.
“I think he’s definitely working with other people in DOD or the intel space to get this information out,” he added — calling Teixiera’s Thursday arrest “an extensive cover-up.”Teixeira briefly appeared in court on Friday.in North Dighton, Mass. after he leaked dozens of sensitive US intelligence documents related to the Ukraine war through a Discord channel with 20 to 30 members.
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