Air Force suspends leaders of alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira's unit

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Source: CBS News

The Air Force has temporarily suspended two leaders of the unit where accused Pentagon document leaker Jack Teixeira worked, according to the Air Force.

The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron and the detachment commander overseeing administrative support have both been temporarily suspended from their leadership positions and have temporarily lost access to classified systems and information.

Teixeira, the 21-year-old who allegedly posted hundreds of classified Pentagon documents online for months, worked as a systems administrator in the 102nd Intelligence Wing in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. The two commanders are suspended pending further investigation by the Air Force inspector general.

As more information becomes available, more members of Teixeira's unit could face suspension or removal. The Air Force reassigned the unit's intelligence mission to other units earlier this month and ordered the inspector general to probe the unit's policies and procedures related to the handling of national security information.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-intelligence-unit-leaders-suspended-air-force/

[paleotn]

1. Not surprised.

Shit like that usually runs uphill in the military.

[ffr]

2. When the punishment fits the crime, exposing national secrets

Then this kind of life threatening bullshit will stop. Until then, we can expect national secret security clearances to be the national joke that they appear to be.

[republianmushroom]

3. that horse is done gone.

[Rebl2]

4. Hope whatever

units they reassigned it to were thoroughly checked out before it transferred.

[Baked Potato]

5. Good! Let the heads roll as appropriate.

Command sloppiness is not acceptable.

[Kennah]

6. I think this is mostly about sloppiness in IT

Speaking as someone with 30+ years of IT experience (mostly doing app development), I have always believed that most places do not sufficiently safeguard info. We IT nerds have way more access to way more stuff than we should. I've pushed rocks up hills over the years on this issue, but I rarely succeed.

[sybylla]

7. I can see this.

My SO fights these same battles at work. It doesn't help that IT wants to build a little fiefdom over their servers, either.

[plimsoll]

8. I started preaching this in the early 1990s.

But this appears to have been improper controls.
This person should not have had access to the information. He should not have been able to copy the data and remove it from the facility. It doesn't really matter what controls are in place if you give root access to everyone.


In one respect this is much like the classic stories of the Stasi and KGB recruiting clerical workers with the lure of a more exciting life. So this should have been a lesson learned by the intelligence services in the 1950s.

[IronLionZion]

9. The principle of least privileges needs to apply here

The principle of least privilege (POLP) is a concept in computer security that limits users' access rights to only what are strictly required to do their jobs.

I would hope every service would assess their access management policies after this.

[artemisia1]

10. "Suspended" usually ends with either retirement or "Removed for Cause". /nt