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New York Daily News Editorial Board

Editorial: Real consequences for a stupid kid: Accused Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira deserves harsh punishment for endangering national security

So maybe Jack Teixeira, a lowly 21-year-old enlisted man in the Massachusetts Air National Guard still living at his mom’s house, thought it was wicked cool to share some info he had seen at work at a Cape Cod Air Force base with his online pals, most of whom are kids living in their own moms’ houses.

That’s fine for this pathetic character to build himself up to impress some teen losers in their “Thug Shaker Central” chat group on Discord, but that he used stolen highly classified national defense documents ain’t cool and we trust that young Airman Teixeira will soon enough be serving in a different uniform at a different kind of federal facility.

The guys bonded online over their shared love of guns and stuff like that and Teixeira allegedly committed serious federal felonies, not for money like a traitor selling out his country or because his politics were opposed to Washington’s actions or even to be a whistleblower exposing what he thought was wrong, but to show off to his internet pals.

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