Jack Teixiera couldn't get a gun license from his state in 2018

[Just_Vote_Dem]

bc he’d been suspended as a violent, racist threat in high school, but—after a background check—the United States gave him a Top Secret/SCI clearance a couple years later.

WTF????

Link to tweet

[2naSalit]

1. Calls for some serious scrutiny.

[liberalla]

17. I agree!

[littlemissmartypants]

2. I'm wondering if family connections had anything to do with it...??

Maybe that's absurd but stranger things have happened.

Link to more information from DOJ regarding Jackie boy here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217863592


DOJ detention memo for Jack Teixeira, Twitter thread by Charlie Savage

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He specializes in national security and legal policy issues.
https://charliesavage.com/bio/
Twitter bio page
https://twitter.com/charlie_savage?t=4cFu42ZC1bdH_tAPVJcl3A&s=09

[doc03]

3. A Top Secret clearance doesn't seam to matter much anymore, we had numerous people in

in the Trump Administration that couldn't get one.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I wonder how we went from imposing severe penalties for outing our undercover agents,

to suddenly hiring the most unstable individuals that are given access to classified information.

That's a rhetorical question.

[Rebl2]

14. Seems to be

that way. The former trump administration could care less about top secret clearance. The fact that he stole top secret files says it all.

[yardwork]

4. Makes me want to know more about his superiors.

Was he targeted as a potential spy years ago and deliberately placed in that position?

[keopeli]

6. His two superiors as well as two others were suspended with pay yesterday pending investigation.

They said there might be more soldiers being punished as the investigation unfolds.

[kentuck]

5. Also, he would have been 16 yrs old in 2018.

He definitely should not be licensed.

[getagrip_already]

10. it's 15 in mass.....

Massachusetts residents 15 years and older who wish to possess, carry, and transport firearms, ammunition, and feeding devices are required to have a firearms license. Firearms licenses are issued by municipal police departments.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/gun-ownership-in-massachusetts

I thought we had a seperate license for rifles, but nope, just a firearms license. There are different types, like carry permits and machine guns, but the basic license covers both rifles and handguns.

[UpInArms]

7. Security clearances were cheap and easy under tfg

Thinking Jared and ivanka ….

[uponit7771]

8. WOW !!! Did anyone doing the BC ask the school why they suspended him ?! JUST DAMN !!

[jimfields33]

13. Too young. They go back to 18 only. In some cases 5 or 10 years if over 30.

[uponit7771]

15. Hmmm, I was 17 when MISTAKINGLY arrested for a break in and the FEC knew about it and had

... me explain it later.

That's the FEC though and not a private contractor doing BC, interesting

[jimfields33]

16. I'm sure different agencies treat minors differently.

[Marthe48]

11. Someone's kind of guy

From Alice's Restaurant:

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
Wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
Guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and
He started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
Yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
Sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Arlo Guthrie

[jaxexpat]

12. Blue states have higher standards than the federal aggregate.

Is that a equal access issue, or a states rights thing? I get confused sometimes.