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It's Thursday, April 13th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions. It's The Gist I'm Mike Pesca.

12.12. Item comes into my inbox from the Washington Post, Leaker of US Secret Documents, worked on a military-based friend's say.

Ooh, the news is tightening about the Discord server, Leaker. Now it would have been a big scoop, except for the fact that five minutes earlier, 12.07 in my inbox from the New York Times, they got the guy.

They got his name, they got his rank, they got the make-and-model of his car. It's a red pickup truck. They were there in the guy's driveway.

The post-story was sympathetic to the lad describing the Discord server in which he disseminated classified documents as, quote, a gathering spot that had been a pandemic refuge, particularly for teen gamers,

locked in their houses, and cut off from their real-world friends. So sad.

The post extended the Leaker anonymity and included quotes from other lonely members of the Discord server who were also afforded anonymity.

Those members called the Leaker the OG.

OG was not hostile to the US government, however, he had disagreed with several occasions such as Waco and Ruby Ridge and thought that the government is overreaching in several aspects.

Well guess what? OG doesn't get to make that decision. OG doesn't get to have what knowledge he gleaned from a fairly well-done Showtime series inform his choices about the permissibility of leaking classified documents.

Classified documents, by the way, with enormous life or death consequences. No, you don't get to do that. And by you, I mean, 21-year-old member of the Air National Guard, Jack Tashera.

The Times printed his name, his general kind of address, at least his hometown, his rank, his outfit.

Airman Tashera, they kept calling him Airman Tashera. Thank you, newspaperman, Tolder Schwurz, Melon, Tybert, Brown, Gibbons, Naff and Barnes.

And five others credited, or byline journalists, who nabbed the Nudnik. Anyway, Airman Tashera was a 21-year-old member of the Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, the Intelligence Wing being far-filed from the Intelligence Brain.

His motivations were explained or described through his teenage discord group Acolytes in the Post Piece, his actions shown through in the New York Times piece.

The Post described younger members of the group as drawn to the OG's bravado and skill with weapons. OG aka Airman Tashera was quote, like an uncle, or father figure one said, that is sweet.

Here is a description of Airman OG Tashera, inhabiting that Elder Statesman status quote, in a video seen by the Post, the man who the member said is OG, stands at a shooting range wearing safety glasses and near coverings and holding a large rifle.

He yells a series of racial and anti-Semitic slurs into the camera, then fires several rounds out of target.

The New York Times describes the group of youngsters in search of role models as a quote, private online group called Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

Well, two thirds of those things are a wholesome American fun, but maybe only one third should be. Then there is the leaked, some cases top secret classified documents used to impress the teens of Thug Shaker Central.

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