Should we be surprised that there aren’t more O.G.s out there—or are there more O.G.s and we just don’t know it?
had gone some ways toward tracking down the leaker Wednesday night, reporting that the documents posted to Discord, an online chat platform popular with gamers, originated with a “young, charismatic gun enthusiast.” Known to his online comrades as “O.G.,” the source worked at a “military base” and had been sharing classified documents with a small Discord group—roughly 25 young men—for the last few years. On Feb.
How could this have happened? That’s the most obvious question to arise from this tale. It has long been noted thatgranting them access to highly classified documents. But Teixeira seems more than a little unstable. Doesn’t anyone do psychiatric checks anymore? And some of his techniques—taking paper documents back to his home, photographing them with his phone, then emailing the files to his pals—should have been fairly easy to block.
Actually, though, the bigger wonder is that this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often. Over the years, probably lots of people with security clearances have let spouses or good friends take a glance at some Top Secret document they’ve managed to sneak home. But usually that’s the end of the indiscretion. In the Internet age, the secret-sharing can spread to the earth’s farthest corners, as O.G. discovered to his “frantic” dismay.
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