Marjorie Taylor Greene has defended the Air Nationwide Guardsman arrested by the FBI for allegedly leaking nationwide safety paperwork.
The far-right Republican lawmaker took to Twitter to indicate her assist for Jack Teixeira who she lauded for being “white, male, christian and antiwar” – though she referred to him as “Jake Teixeira”.
Authorities raided the Massachusetts dwelling of the 21-year-old who labored in cyber safety for the Guard and took him into custody on Thursday.
Tons of of pages of categorised navy intelligence have been shared with an internet gaming group earlier than changing into public in a string of disclosures final week.
However that didn’t cease the controversy-courting Georgia congresswoman from leaping to his defence, whereas additionally getting his first identify flawed.
“Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. And he instructed the reality about troops being on the bottom in Ukraine and much more,” she tweeted.
“Ask your self who’s the actual enemy? A younger low stage nationwide guardsmen? Or the administration that’s waging struggle in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, in opposition to nuclear Russia with out struggle powers?”
Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar.
That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime.
And he instructed the reality about troops being on the bottom in Ukraine and much more.
Ask your self who’s the actual enemy?
A younger low stage nationwide guardsmen?
Or the…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene???????? (@RepMTG) April 13, 2023
Following the arrest, Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland appeared on the DOJ to substantiate that the suspect had been taken into custody “with out incident.”
Mr Garland stated that the suspect was being investigated for the alleged “unauthorized removing, retention and transmission of categorised nationwide defence info” and that he would make his first court docket look on the US District Courtroom for Massachusetts.
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The so-called “Pentagon Papers”, broadly shared and leaving many in Washington ashen-faced with embarrassment, have but to be formally authenticated however seem to include particulars on deeply delicate issues pertaining to nationwide safety and overseas affairs.
The slides of photographed information that had been made public embrace detailed battlefield maps from Russia’s struggle in Ukraine and the alarming suggestion that the US believes Kyiv will quickly run out of missiles for its air defence programs, along with awkward revelations about America’s angle in the direction of a lot of its allies around the globe, together with the UK, South Korea, Egypt, Israel and the UAE.
Exactly what number of paperwork had been leaked isn’t recognized, with estimates various from 50 into the tons of.
