Since the arrest of Jack Teixeria, I have noticed that the mainstream media not only have an agenda regarding Discord but have looked into his private life and three other things. All the media outlers seem intent on labelling Discord a purely "gaming platform" for "gamers" as opposed to a social messaging and communication platform. I would consider the likes of Steam as a gaming platform, not Discord. Regardless, the mainstream media is already putting pressure internally and externally around Discord.
He is also being labelled as having an obsession with God as well as a fascination with the military and sharing "racist" memes and as we know, these things equal far right in the eyes of the mainstream media. He's also being accused of anti-semitism as well.
CNN changed their headline to remove the word loner but still carry anecdotes such as "a lot of people were wary of him" and "he made me nervous" that attempts to paint Teixeria as a threat to individuals and society because of his loneliness. If anything, to paint him as an involuntary celibate in the eyes of the reader. Another group of people that the mainstream media wants Government to take action against. They also made sure to bring attention around his enthusiasm with guns and linked it with his loneliness.
Regardless of your view of Teixeria, the conclusion of this is that the mainstream media are painting the four groups above as a threat to national security and society which will inevitably lead to knee-jerk, bad and illiberal laws to target said groups but will as history shows, expand beyond that. The current allegations will allow defenders to be maligned as is already happening to Marjorie Taylor-Greene. And it allows the authorities to implement surveillance and censorship of discussion and communication spaces such as Discord. A narrative is being brewed for an agenda because Teixeria fits the mould of whom they see as their outgroup and boogeyman.
CNN: https://archive.is/G3dXG Daily Mail: https://archive.ph/g2dCx Sky News: https://archive.is/hPGu4 and https://archive.is/PI0AG
Their narratives are getting more obvious and crumbling faster though. No-one believes some random low level guardsman had access to top secret documents and this little blame shift won't be the end of it.
Actually I find that completely believable given what I've seen over the course of my career. You need to divest yourself of your Hollywood notions of how classified environments and information are handled. Kid works in an intelligence agency and is in a few Active Directory groups that are used to give access to some network shares and because doing security at a proper granular level and adhering to principles of least privilege is actually pretty demanding from a logistical standpoint...well the long and short of it is that no one wants to manage hundreds of AD groups and it's impractical to do so, so you get shoved in a few groups that have more permissions than they probably ought to and if you're curious you can just go exploring the share drive and find stuff that isn't explicitly necessary for you to do your job.
I've seen it play out over and over again. This shit is so mundane and normal but everyone's got this fantasy image about how classified information gets handled because you've all been watching spy movies instead of working in the industry.
Take it up with an intelligence officer, Rambo. Either way someone far above the level of this private is responsible and they're trying to save face with the standard white man bad shtick.
You believe what a CIA spook says on the mainstream media circuit? Are you retarded? Dude was in the military which usually warrants some level of clearance. This spook says it takes years to get. Ok let's roll with that assumption. They also said this kid didn't go to college, so I'll assume he joined the Guard right after high school. That's 3 years, plenty of time to get base level of Secret clearance (which isn't actually all that hard). He gets put on the intelligence project and then probably lands an interim TS, at which point they're fine to read him on for the SCI. The fact that he's with the military and young means his background check doesn't take all that long, doubly so if the kid led a relatively boring life and didn't get into trouble with the law or travel overseas.
Again, it is entirely believable that this kid had access to top secret documents.