Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the FBI had arrested 21-year-old Air National Guardsmen Jack Teixeira in connection with their investigation into the leak of classified military documents reported last week.
The fact that they already have a suspect in custody for this embarrassing leak is quite telling. They are still “baffled” about who was behind the politically convenient Supreme Court leak regarding the Dobbs decision so many months ago. But the difference between this leak and that other leak is that this one must be about the leaker instead of the content of the leak. And thats because the content of this leak is an exposé of the Biden Administration’s utter incompetence, dishonesty, and corruption.
The documents reportedly contain a host of sensitive information relevant to ongoing events involving the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the New York Times, the documents contain a description of Ukraine’s struggling air defenses and plans for their coming counteroffensive campaign. All of that information could have a significant impact on the dynamics of this war.
Many Americans are skeptical about wether all the money we’ve spent in Ukraine is actually serving our interests. But if the Biden Administration insists on spending billions of taxpayer dollars on this war, they should at least be competent enough to avoid a tactical blunder of such magnitude. And they could’ve avoided it if they weren’t so corrupt and dishonest that a whistleblower felt obligated — as he certainly was — to expose their lies.
We have been told since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine that it is not a proxy war between the United States and Russia. We’ve been told that there are no U.S. forces deployed in the war zone, and we have been told that Ukraine is winning. That is the narrative that has been pushed by the media and our government on repeat for more than a year. But the leaked documents completely shatter that narrative.
The leak revealed that there are U.S. forces deployed in Ukraine. In fact, this was confirmed on Wednesday by John Kirby in an interview with Fox News. This is not only a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia. We are quite literally in the middle of a hot war with Russia. A war which has not been approved by Congress as our laws would require. That makes it a crime.
The documents also reveal that Ukrainian forces are in dire straits. According to the documents, there have been a total of 16,000-17,500 Russian casualties and as many as 71,000 Ukrainian casualties.
General Mark Milley stated publicly in November that Russia had lost well over 100,000 soldiers. And these documents aren’t even old. According to New York Times reporter David Sanger, the documents were mere weeks old at the time of the leak.
Furthermore, just two weeks ago Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made the assertion that Ukraine was winning the war while he was testifying before Congress. That is not true. Ukraine is not winning the war and Austin knew that when he made a claim to the contrary. Lying before Congress is a crime.
And now the administration is asking the media to cover all of this up.
In a recent press conference, John Kirby asked reporters to refrain from reporting on the leak saying, “it has no business, if you don't mind me saying, on the front pages of newspapers or on television. It is not intended for public consumption, and it should not be out there.”
It is the government's job to keep classified documents out of the public eye and it is the job of the press to report information to the public. But the Biden Administration failed — as a result of their own corruption — to keep these documents secret, so they want the press to do it for them. And the press is doing just that.
The mainstream media has focused most of their energy on making this story about the source of the leak rather than the content of the documents. But the content in the documents has turned out to be far more important than the source of the leak. In fact, we should be thanking the source of the leak for providing us with the information we now have.
If the administration wants to argue that the American public doesn't have a right to know that U.S. forces are fighting in Ukraine, they are simply wrong. We certainly do have a right to know that our leaders are waging an illegal war and committing perjury before Congress.
Jack Teixeira simply recognizes that. But unfortunate for him and the rest of the country, it is unlikely that anybody in the Biden Administration will face any consequences for their crimes. The only person who will be going to jail is the whistleblower — for the “crime” of exposing them.