The alleged author of the Pentagon leak worked at a military base

Newspaper investigation The Washington Post revealed that he is the alleged perpetrator leaking of classified US intelligence documents is, according to the statements of a member of the group in which the documents were distributed, a military base worker.

According to a newspaper source, a minor member of a private group on the messaging service Discord, the alleged leaker is A man between the ages of 20 and 25 who had been sending documents to colleagues on chat for monthsfirst by hand, and later by photographs.

The group where these messages were shared was created during the pandemic on the most popular messaging network for young people and teenagers who love video games. According to a member of the group, in his there were more than 20 people in the chatthe vast majority of whom were young men and adolescents who shared a right-wing, gun-friendly, religious ideology.

Far right winger and gun lover

The alleged perpetrator, the oldest in the group, would explain to the other members the meaning of the military jargon in the documents, and would boasted of revealing things that “the Government don’t want them to know”always according to the investigation of the mentioned paper.

A member of the group also claimed this didn’t send anything by mistakethat he knew for sure what he was doing, and that he knew the real name and location of the alleged author of the leak, although he expressed that he would wait for the investigation currently being carried out by the US intelligence services.

The newspaper had access to videos sent to the group by the alleged leaker – described by some members as an uncle or almost a father figure – of him in a shooting range, uttering racist and anti-Semitic slurs. before shooting the target.

On one occasion, he revealed the source, the presumed perpetrator He got angry with the other members of the groupsince he spent “an hour every day writing these overlong messages in which he often noted and explained things that we normal citizens wouldn’t understand”, getting angry at the apparent disinterest of the younger ones, threatening to leave to send the leak.

The main rule that the alleged author of the leak imposed on his colleagues was do not upload documents anywhereaccording to a source consulted by the paper, who adds that the group included people from outside the United States, including Russia and Ukraine.

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According to the aforementioned media, on February 28, the first series of documents left the group, shared by one of the users – their source does not know who it was – in another chat of the messaging network they used, and from there to more groups, although intelligence services did not report evidence of these leaks until a month later.

In mid-March, the alleged author of the leak stopped publishing the documentsand the day before the US media first reported the alleged leak, he wrote to the group in a “frenzy” state, assuring that “something had happened, and he was praying to God that it wouldn’t.”

After the case was published in the media, members of the group jumped to another server to continue their conversations, in which the alleged author of the leak admitted to feeling “confused and at a loss as to what to do next”.

In the end, he asked the other members of the group to delete all documents and all messages and disappeared, something that according to the source he consulted The Washington Post“I felt like I was losing a family member, we all cried.”

In addition, he said he believed that when intelligence agencies found the alleged leaker – something he assumed would happen – he would not have a fair trial and would instead be sent to “Guantanamo or some dark place”. ., and even added that he might be “killed”.