Was Leaker Of Military Secrets A Potential Mass Killer?

The 21- year- old Air National Guard member with Top Secret clearance who leaked sensitive national security information had a disturbing profile that's become all too familiar in recent years:

New evidence filed in Massachusetts District Court suggests Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence, had a history of making violent comments, sought information about how to commit a shooting and had what prosecutors called a “virtual arsenal of weapons” stored at his places of residence, including an AK-style weapon. [snip]

The former IT specialist, who is accused of sharing the documents on a Discord server named “Thug Shaker Central,” has been described as a “charismatic gun enthusiast” who wanted to educate and inform his friends. But the new court filings reveal a fascination with mass killings and a concentrated effort to acquire military-grade weaponry while entertaining troubling ideas about how to use it.

In the court documents, prosecutors reveal that Teixeira was suspended from high school in 2018 after a classmate overheard him talking about “Molotov cocktails, guns at the school, and racial threats.” On social media in recent years, he has continued such rhetoric, prosecutors say, writing in a November message that he wanted to kill a “ton of people” because it would be “culling the weak minded.” In February, he asked a user for advice about what kind of rifle would fire best from an SUV, saying he wanted to commit a shooting in a “crowded urban or suburban environment.”

Teixeira is also said to have used his military-issued device to search for “Las Vegas shooting,” “Buffalo tops shooting,” “Uvalde” and other shooting-related terms irrelevant to his job at the base.

A search of Teixeira’s bedroom found that he kept a gun locker two feet from his bed containing handguns, bolt-action rifles, shotguns, an AK-style weapon and a gas mask, among other weapons, prosecutors say in the new filing. Investigators also found ammunition and tactical pouches on his dresser and what appeared to be a silencer accessory in his desk drawer, while photos of Teixeira’s bedroom, submitted as evidence, show a hand-drawn design for a gun truck, a pile of rifle magazine pouches and other military paraphernalia.   (our emphasis)

He seems nice.  You can almost hear the "tick, tick, tick..."

Teixeira has become a hero to the deranged Putin caucus on the treasonous right, including the frothing loon Marjorie Taylor Traitor Greene.  That he was a fellow ammosexual, as well as (as MTG put it) "white, male, Christian," makes the latest revelations fall in the category of "neither shocked nor surprised."

(Image: the ominous Jack Teixeira/ Daniel Schemer, via USA Today)