Twitter banned Substack but allowed the posting of stolen top-secret national security documents

That's Elon Musk for you

The same day Elon Musk banned Substack from Twitter, he allowed another batch of stolen top-secret documents to be spread all over the world on his platform.  The New York Times is reporting today that more than 100 highly sensitive national security documents were “found on Twitter and other sites on Friday, a day after senior Biden administration officials said they were investigating a potential leak of classified Ukrainian war plans, include an alarming assessment of Ukraine’s faltering air defense capabilities.”

And not a peep from Elon.

This is the second batch of national security documents to appear on Twitter and other social media platforms in a week.  A previous batch was discovered on Thursday.  That group of top-secret documents included U.S. and NATO plans to build up Ukrainian forces in advance of an expected offensive later in the Spring or early Summer. According to the Times, other documents included plans for training Ukrainian units by U.S. and NATO forces.  One document was dated March 1, the day General Mark Milley visited a training site in Germany where a Ukrainian battalion was undergoing combined operations training.  Another document gave a schedule for the training of Ukrainian brigades and when the training would be completed for individual units.  A brigade has about 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers. 

The new batch of documents which appeared on Twitter yesterday “includes sensitive briefing slides on China, the Indo-Pacific military theater, the Middle East and terrorism,” according to the Times.  There are also detailed charts showing weapons delivery schedules to Ukraine and descriptions of Ukrainian military strength at battalion level.

Elon Musk is apparently just fine with spreading U.S. and NATO secrets around the globe, including making this sensitive national security information available to U.S. and NATO enemies, namely Russia.

Both the Pentagon and the Department of Justice have announced investigations into how these top-secret documents were leaked and who might be behind it.  They might start by looking for holdovers from the Trump administration in the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, and Office of National Intelligence. 

They could call Elon Musk and ask him for the source codes for the documents which he allowed to appear on Twitter, so that the DOJ and Pentagon can examine the codes and determine who had access to each of the top-secret documents that were shared on Twitter.

Good luck with that.  Musk isn’t talking about why he found it necessary to ban Substack from Twitter.  He is unlikely to share with the U.S. government why he is allowing traitorous information to be published on Twitter.  I specify “traitorous” because of the following in the U.S. Constitution:

“Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

I would consider sharing Pentagon and U.S. intelligence secrets “giving them Aid and Comfort” wouldn’t you?