Discord Traitor Bro

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Another week, another set of traitors that somehow our (compromised) national security institutions were not able to catch in time! This week we take a look at Jake Teixeira, a traitor who leaked classified intelligence documents on Discord and became the new mascot of the far-right, and "Donbass Devushka", the pathetic online persona of a former Naval official and all-around asshole from New Jersey named Sarah Bils. These two are just the latest iteration of a broader online propaganda initiative, ongoing for over a decade, to weaponize intelligence against Ukraine on behalf of the Kremlin and its American right-wing backers.

We look at the long history of intelligence failures that have led us to the point that a bunch of randos in a Discord forum are more in tune with intelligence than our politicians, who behave like characters in a reality TV show. We discuss the lack of accountability from the FBI and DOJ and the complicity of seditionists like Marjorie Taylor Green who recite their little lines in tandem with their task masters. We discuss Wagner Group and other terrorist outlets attacking Ukraine, as well as the slow-moving war itself, and Andrea again implores the US government to give Ukraine the military equipment that it needs so the war will actually end – and the only way it can end with a chance of peace for the world is with a Ukraine win.

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Show Notes:

News clip on Discord Bro Leaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFZo2t11AsM

Trump/Tucker clip: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1645954118551322626

Italian PM clip calling out Kremlin shills: https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1639206906786103296

Donbass Devushka clip: https://twitter.com/jabuttee/status/1646547974858653699

Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets

https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-account-overseen-by-former-navy-noncommissioned-officer-helped-spread-secrets-a4b5643b

UPDATED: Feds Investigating Former Sailor Behind Pro-Russian 'Donbass Devushka' Accounts

https://news.usni.org/2023/04/17/feds-investigating-former-sailor-behind-pro-russian-donbass-devushka-accounts

Nexta on Sarah Bils, Russian Disinformation Grifter: https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1647729855587385347

A Russian Disinformation Empire in Oak Harbor, Washington

https://malcontentment.com/a-russian-disinformation-empire-in-oak-harbor-washington/

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0:00.0	The latest of course is the arrest of the 21 year old by the FBI. His name is Jack Tajara.
0:05.7	And that was quickly followed by the arrest announcement by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
0:11.5	Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas DeShera.
0:14.9	The arrest in North Dayton, Massachusetts of 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Chara.
0:19.8	In connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information.
0:27.6	Allegedly, he had information on Israel, South Korea, the war in Ukraine, classified documents reportedly ranging from intelligence information on Ukrainian military positions,
0:39.3	international support for Ukraine, the state of the war, various sensitive topics like,
0:45.3	under what conditions might President Putin use nuclear weapons.
0:48.3	The arrest coming just hours after the Washington Post conducted an interview with a friend of the alleged leaker who was said to oversee a private online group on discord, a site popular with gamers.
1:00.0	He is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the U.S. or other countries.
1:08.0	There's nothing contemporaneous that I'm aware of that is of great
1:11.6	consequence. Pushback from Ohio Republican Congressman Mike Turner was quick. You don't share your
1:17.1	game plan with your adversary. Certainly in this instance, there are lives at sake. This is not a game.
1:22.7	And there was concern from former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker. It's revealed yet again. We spy on our allies.
1:29.3	We can't keep our secrets. That is a little troubling.
1:32.3	The 21-year-old was in the 100 second intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
1:37.3	He was working as a cyber transport systems journeyman.
1:41.3	In other words, he was responsible for keeping the internet working at all of the air bases.
1:45.7	It is a wild story of how he shared all this information with these young people for months.
1:50.3	And it keeps unfolding like the layers of an onion. The charges could be significant if they're under the espionage act.
1:56.4	He could get 10 years for every count if convicted. So there's a lot riding on this.
2:02.0	Only one years old.
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