Unbelievable. The first thing I saw after pressing “Publish” was that there had been an arrest of the “leaker”—the 21 year old National Guardsman who shared some of the most highly classified documents of our government in a gaming chatroom.
Here, below, is Larry Johnson talking to Andrew Napolitano, and Larry isn’t buying any of this. First, I’ll paste in my transcript of their closing exchange:
[19:32]
Napolitano: What is the probability that President Baidan is aware of all this? The controlled leak, the absurd explanation for the leak, the missing $400 million, the graft in Ukraine, the President [Zelensky] as the grafter in chief. Does Old Zhou know this?
Johnson: If he did, he forgot it. He's not running this show here. The elements are connected to the Blinkens and the Clintons. I believe personally that the Clintons are involved. Because, when you look at the heritage of the Jake Sullivans and the Anthony Blinkens, they always go back to a Clinton foundation, to a Clinton reality. You've got institutions in Washington that have been dependent on the war machine. That's what got Donald Trump into trouble--he tried to stop, slow down, that war machine and that's one of the reasons they've been going after him, trying to get rid of him. So here we are now where the wheels are coming off. The United States has thrown everything it has, short of nuclear weapons, at Russia and we haven't stopped them. Instead, the opposite has happened--Russia and China have united and are working together, they're bringing about peace in the Middle East in key areas. Yemen, Syria. So the United States' control is slipping away and I think over all these leaks is a symptom of desperation--that's what's driving it. Part of the desperation is they put out such a silly story. To claim that a 21 year old National Guardsman from Oklahoma or Kansas, who is TDY temporarily assigned to duty at Fort Bragg was able to get some of the highest classified material out of the SCIF when he wouldn't even hold the clearances to get into the building? Please.
[21:44]
What Johnson is maintaining is that this was a controlled operation that goes to the highest levels of the Intel Community (IC).
As evidence he points out that one of the documents is an internal CIA document—IOW, as internal it would never have been disseminated to other agencies, not even within the IC.
He also cites a FISA document—which means that the document was internal to the DoJ/FBI. That’s another document—if true—that would not be disseminated without being written up in some other form.
He also maintains that he has scoured the internet trying to find the 50+ docs, but can only come up with a dozen. Where is the trove of docs that we’re being told about? And what’s with the simultaneous leaks of the story to the WaPo and The Guardian?
Here are some more highlights, summarized (I’ve left out the parts about Ukrainian corruption):
AN: Is this remotely credible?
LJ: No. It's a lie. It's a fabrication.
He points out, as have others, that one of the WaPo reporters has ties to Bellingcat which, he says, is a front for British Intelligence. This is a coordinated media strategy. The docs are real, but the cover story is part of a disinformation campaign. It falls apart from the inclusion of one doc marked: CIA Operations Center - Top Secret. Johnson worked there and vouches for that being an internal CIA doc, not for dissemination. No one on a military base anywhere in the world would have access to it.
I put this above the CIA. This involves elements connected to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)--that's the one place you can bring together CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, etc. It's the one place you can bring all that material together.
The strategy behind the leaks was to prepare the US public for the crash landing that's gonna take place with regard to US foreign policy. The crash landing in Ukraine. The crash landing in China. There were elements in management that thought this was a good idea, which shows how unprofessional and ridiculous it is. And dangerous. This package was tied up too neatly, drawing from all elements of the IC, and nobody on a military base could have that access.
AN: Baidan doesn't have a safe off ramp from his dalliance with Ukraine.
LJ: This was an intel operation. They're trying to create a backstory that this was a bunch of right wing, antisemitic, racist gamers. Re the video of one of the gamers--How did the WaPo find the kid so quickly? This story was obviously fed to the WaPo by the IC, gave them the kids' names.
Will Schryver
@imetatronink
So we are to believe this barely-able-to-shave kid obtained and "leaked" TOP SECRET Pentagon intelligence documents?
Actually there were much more highly classified than TOP SECRET docs involved—which is another red flag that this is a fabrication.
This whole story has now gone full-bore #ClownWorld.
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Stephen McIntyre
@ClimateAudit
"amazing that FBI and US intel agencies were able to identify the current leaker of documents of documents but were unable to identify the leakers of information about Jan 2017 ICA, about Flynn (on two occasions), about "repeated contacts" and so many anti-Trump leaks."
Or the SCOTUS leak!
Mollie
@MZHemingway
FYI, **Bellingat is an intel cutout and no one who works there knows anything other than what they’re spoonfed by various agencies.** So mostly what this means is that we're in the phase of admitting the leaks about how poorly Ukraine war is going, etc. are completely legit.
Bellingcat
@bellingcat
NEW: Bellingcat's @AricToler worked with the @nytimes to uncover a trail of digital evidence that appears to identify Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, as the leader of an online gaming chat group where US intelligence documents leaked https://nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html…
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
I have a question:
Why is it ok for the New York Times to hunt down a whistleblower who exposed the extent of US involvement in running the Ukraine war while it's not ok, according to the New York Times, for a bunch of randos to identify a fraud who made up stories about Trump?