Thursday’s OTHER Big Arrest

The militarized FBI arrest of 21-year-old Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira prompted some questions in the questioning mind, like:

-- Is the highly-classified intelligence that Teixeira allegedly leaked to a group of young online gamers REALLY that top-secret? I mean, some of it was already well-known to news consumers -- news stories based on OFFICIAL leaks. Other revelations about U.S. allies were greeted with a shrug by those overseas governments. And most of the leaks were U.S. intelligence assessments of the Ukraine war -- information that SHOULD be known and discussed by the American public, which is enormously funding the war. In fact, that's exactly what Airman Teixeira (who is no whistleblower in the mould of Snowden or Manning) was reportedly trying to do -- raise awareness about the war in his online group and, yes, win his circle's awe and admiration.

-- Is the New York Times, whose hair-on-fire coverage of the leak story dominated its front page for the past week, supposed to LEAD the heavily weaponized national security assault team (that included armored vehicles and surveillance planes) that took unarmed Teixeira into custody? A gaggle of NYT reporters fired questions at Teixeira's mother and stepfather at the family household in Massachusetts just hours before the arrest drama -- which they then breathlessly reported on. Weird. One more sign that our leading media "watchdogs" have become an arm of the deep state.