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Are you kidding me, Washington Post? Are you actually kidding me?
No? Then WTAF is this headline: “He’s from a patriotic family — and allegedly leaked U.S. secrets.”
That’s Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member who allegedly posted classified national defense information on a Discord server, and it’s not just the headline. He “had followed in the footsteps of numerous family members to join the military.” He’s “slim and boyish in photographs taken in his blue dress uniform.” He’s “patriotic, a devout Catholic and a libertarian with an interest in guns and doubts about America’s future.” As for the videos of him screaming racist and antisemitic slurs … well, those exist, but his “friend said it was hard to assess Teixeira’s true feelings given ‘how many layers of irony that server was in.’” Sure, he was just ironically being racist. Was he also ironically sharing classified information?
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