The Pentagon, a sieve

The leaks of classified information that in recent days have revealed secret information from the Pentagon, no less, have already found a culprit, which is surprisingly easy to penetrate the documents that we all considered to be the best protected in the world.

The culprit is a 21-year-old from a military family named Jack Teixeria who worked as a low-level technician in the airborne communications department at the Cape Col National Guard base in Massachusetts. Nothing is clear about the culprit and his accomplices. It has only transpired that he was arrested on Friday in Boston and may be sentenced to 1,000 years in prison.

The explanations, more childish than convincing in some examples, are limited to the fact that Teixeria was part of a group of young people who shared activities and sports games on social networks and one turned fiction into real information that he exchanged with his companions, thus revealing to his peers such sensitive issues as the counter-offensive that was being prepared to stop the Russian escalation in Ukraine or that Egypt was providing rockets to Russia.

The revelations, which included obvious factual information with all sorts of details, increased the surprise and ultimately triggered the scandal. No one can explain that secrets of this nature are exposed to be known by a technician so unwitting as to play with the reality of confidential information, mostly about the war, including confidential NATO reports and some considered high-risk. One of them reveals the growing weakness of Ukraine's forces and especially the passivity of its aviation.

The disclosed documents include photographs, but raise questions as to whether some of them have been manipulated or forged, as they have been disseminated through the Discord gaming group. Official reports have explained that although the documents are confidential, many people, mostly senior military officials, have access to them.

The Pentagon was initially alarmed, but in the last few hours it has tried to play down the seriousness of the situation. The revelations, all of them considered intelligence, include varied reports on different countries, but the bulk of them concern the Ukrainian-Russian war and include strategic details considered serious. Nevertheless, the press stresses that Pentagon security is a leak.