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U.S. NEWS Thursday 6 July 2023
After secret documents leak, Pentagon plans tighter controls

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and inside the rooms. That effort
TARA COPP would include “appropri-
Associated Press ate electronic device de-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tection systems and mitiga-
Pentagon on Wednes- tion measures” inside the
day announced plans to secure areas, according to
tighten protection for clas- the memo.
sified information following According to authorities,
the explosive leaks of hun- Teixeira, who enlisted in the
dreds of intelligence docu- Air National Guard in 2019,
ments that were accessed began sharing military se-
through security gaps at a crets first by typing out clas-
Massachusetts Air National sified documents and later
Guard base. by removing classified doc-
Airman 1st Class Jack Teixei- uments from the base and
ra, 21, is accused of leaking taking them home to pho-
the highly classified military tograph them.
documents in a chatroom Teixeira worked as a a
on Discord, a social media “cyber transport systems
platform that started as a specialist,” essentially an
hangout for gamers. IT specialist responsible for
Defense Secretary Lloyd military communications
Austin, in a memo released networks, which gave him
Wednesday, ordered all of This artist depiction shows Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appearing wide access to the mili-
the department’s secured in U.S. District Court in Boston, April 14, 2023. Associated Press tary’s classified computing
rooms where classified in- networks.
formation is stored and A senior defense official information across the gov- know the classified material The case highlighted the
accessed to be brought who briefed reporters on ernment when necessary. they are reading. potential vulnerabilities
into compliance with intel- the new directives said the Asked if the department is The official spoke on con- the department faces as it
ligence community stan- department is trying to in- trying to limit the number of dition of anonymity in ac- works to safeguard classi-
dards for oversight and crease accountability, us- people who have access cordance with Pentagon fied information at military
tracking. The changes call ing technology that can to classified information, ground rules for the brief- facilities across the globe
for increased levels of phys- better track what workers the defense official said it ing. that have varying security
ical security, additional are doing and what infor- is an effort to ensure that In the memo, Austin also procedures and layers of
controls to ensure docu- mation they are accessing. the department is properly said the sensitive com- protection, said the senior
ments aren’t improperly But at the same time, the determining what informa- partmented information defense official.q
removed, and the assign- official said, defense lead- tion each person may ac- facilities, or SCIFs, must be “There wasn’t a single point
ment of top-secret control ers don’t want to impede cess and making sure that monitored to prevent the of failure,” the official add-
officers to monitor users. the ability to share critical employees have a need to use of electronic devices ed. q

Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, prosecutors say

By ERIC TUCKER On the day of his June 29 “We got these losers sur- Taranto also told followers chamber.
Associated Press arrest, prosecutors said, rounded! See you in hell, on his YouTube live stream Since then, prosecutors say,
WASHINGTON (AP) — For- Taranto reposted a Truth Podesta’s and Obama’s.” that he was looking to get Taranto has been active
mer President Donald Social post from Trump That’s a reference to John a “good angle on a shot.” online, posting a Facebook
Trump posted on his social containing what Trump Podesta, the former chair A federal defender repre- video of himself in the Cap-
media platform what he claimed was Obama’s of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 senting Taranto did not im- itol that day and endorsing
claimed was the home ad- home address. In a post on Democratic presidential mediately return a phone a conspiracy theory that
dress of former President Telegram, Taranto wrote: campaign. message seeking com- the death of Ashli Babbitt
Barack Obama on the ment. who was fatally shot by a
same day that a man with His wife told investiga- Capitol Police officer as she
guns in his van was arrested tors that he had come to began to climb through
near the property, federal Washington this time be- the broken part of a door
prosecutors said Wednes- cause of House Speaker leading into the Speaker’s
day in revealing new de- Kevin McCarthy’s offer Lobby was a hoax.
tails about the case. earlier this year to produce The FBI had been monitor-
Taylor Taranto, 37, who unseen video of the Jan. 6 ing Taranto’s online ac-
prosecutors say partici- attack, the federal deten- tivities because of his in-
pated in the Jan. 6, 2021 tion memo states. Taranto volvement in the riot, and
riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept already faces four misde- began searching for him
two firearms and hundreds meanor counts related to last Wednesday after he
of rounds of ammunition the Capitol assault, when asserted on his YouTube
inside a van he had driv- prosecutors say he joined livestream that he was in
en cross-country and had the crush of rioters who Gaithersburg, Maryland on
been living in, according to broke into the building a “one-way mission” and
a Justice Department mo- and made his way to the intended to blow up the
tion that seeks to keep him Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in entrance of the Speaker’s National Institute of Stan-
Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
behind bars. Associated Press Lobby outside the House dards and Technology.q