My view of this 'saga' over Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira...the guy who took Top Secret info and moved it over to some open-source file system?
Most people interpret the story to be that Teixeira was an intelligence background guy in the Air Guard. Well...NO. After boo camp, he went to the communications school, and learned the basic trade of keeping servers up and operational. In simple terms....the intelligence folks rely upon the communication technicians to ensure the systems are backed-up and functional.....24 hours a day.
I worked in an office for about five years that bridged the two unique fields. The comm guy needs to focus on operational status....not the value or purpose of the intelligence data. The intelligence guy needs to focus on the purpose and value of the intelligence data....reaching a 'best-guess' estimation. Neither needs to get in the way of their purpose/mission.
Teixeira, from reports I read this week....was warned (in counseling forms) on three occasions....to focus on his purpose, and he simply kept going back to the purpose/value of the intelligence data.
In the 1990s, you just never saw that 'stuck-on' type of behavior.....people understood their role in the big picture of getting a job done.
After they wrote the first counseling form, in a pretty blunt way....that should have been enough. He seems compulsive about going right back to the same 'habit'.
What'll happen here with the 'kid'? I'm guessing by the time they do the charges, and attempt to make this a minor public attention thing....the 'kid' gets 12 years in prison, and leaves around the nine year point.
What make this odd? He didn't do it for money, fame, or to take down US government. This is going trigger a lot of 'soul-searching'....because it doesn't fit the past 100-odd cases.
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