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The Justice Department arrested a jamoke from Discord.
Speaking at an afternoon news briefing in Washington, Garland stated, “Today, the Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. Teixeira is an employee of the United States Air Force National Guard.” Investigators believe that the guardsman, who specializes in intelligence, led the online chat group where the documents were posted, the Associated Press reported.
FBI agents converged Thursday at Teixeira’s family home in North Dighton, Mass., and heavily armed tactical agents took him into custody outside the property, “without incident,” Garland said. Teixeira was wearing a t-shirt and shorts. He will have an initial appearance Friday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, officials said.
Washington was running around with its hair on fire for a couple of weeks wondering just how in the hell this happened. Then, as the Washington Post reported, the Intertoobz intervened.
United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers. But they paid little attention last year when the man some call “OG” posted a message laden with strange acronyms and jargon. The words were unfamiliar, and few people read the long note, one of the members explained. But he revered OG, the elder leader of their tiny tribe, who claimed to know secrets that the government withheld from ordinary people.
With the guns and the military gear, I'll buy true love from these jamokes. But, personally, I think they were trying to get God drunk and score.
In a video seen by The Post, the man who the member said is OG stands at a shooting range, wearing safety glasses and ear coverings and holding a large rifle. He yells a series of racial and antisemitic slurs into the camera, then fires several rounds at a target. The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons. He felt a certain kinship with a man he described as “like an uncle” and, on another occasion, as a father figure. “I was one of the very few people in the server that was able to understand that these [documents] were legitimate,” the member said, setting himself apart from the others who mostly ignored OG’s posts. “It felt like I was on top of Mount Everest,” he said. “I felt like I was above everyone else to some degree and that … I knew stuff that they didn’t.”
The clubhouse was quite busy. And a festering cauldron of conspiracy stew.
But OG had a dark view of the government. The young member said he spoke of the United States, and particularly law enforcement and the intelligence community, as a sinister force that sought to suppress its citizens and keep them in the dark. He ranted about “government overreach.” OG told his online companions that the government hid horrible truths from the public. He claimed, according to the members, that the government knew in advance that a white supremacist intended to go on a shooting rampage at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. The attack left 10 dead, all of them Black, and wounded three more. OG said federal law enforcement officials let the killings proceed so they could argue for increased funding, a baseless notion that the member said he believes and considers an example of OG’s penetrating insights about the depth of government corruption.
The master spy as a kind of Fagin with a bunch of basement-dwelling acolytes is more pathetic than it is anything else. Please, sirs, I want some more.
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