A barrage of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> missiles damaged a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system near Kyiv early Tuesday morning, weeks after the $1 billion system shot a Russian hypersonic missile out of the sky.
U.S. officials told <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-16-23/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> the extent of the damage is still under assessment and will determine whether Ukrainians can repair the system on the spot.
Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that Ukraine had successfully intercepted all six hypersonic missiles fired by the Russian military. The attack signaled an air alert, which Ukraine&#8217;s Ministry of Defense <a href="https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1658480421607473152?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;one of the most intense attacks on the capital city since the invasion.&#8221;
Russia&#8217;s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday in a post on Telegram that a precision strike by a hypersonic Kinzhal missile had destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kyiv, contradicting the Ukrainian government&#8217;s report.
In a daily briefing on Tuesday reported by <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/576372-kinzhal-strike-patriot-kiev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RT</a>, Russian ministry officials confirmed the attack, stating that Russia had used long-range precision weapons to strike military targets, including &#8220;Ukrainian troops positions and places of storage of munitions, weapons and military hardware delivered from Western nations.&#8221;
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu denied Ukraine&#8217;s claims to Russian state media, saying, &#8220;The Russian Federation has not launched as many &#8216;Kinzhals&#8217; as they allegedly shoot down every time when making their statements.&#8221;
He added Ukraine&#8217;s number of intercept attempts was “three times more than [the missiles] we are launching.&#8221;
&#8220;And they get the kind of missile wrong all the time,” Shoigu claimed. “That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t hit them.&#8221;
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Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat declined to comment on the claim from Russia.
A senior Ukrainian military source told <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/16/russia-destroys-key-us-supplied-air-defence-system-kyiv/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1684266355">The Telegraph</a> that officials &#8220;were happy to let Russia believe it succeeded in striking the air defense system.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe it was hit by something,&#8221; Justin Crump, CEO of the intelligence consultancy Sibylline, said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not going to end the air defense of Kyiv.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll probably won&#8217;t ever know the full detail, but what we definitely didn&#8217;t see was lots of Kinzhal landing,&#8221; he added.
Ukraine currently has two Patriot air defense systems — one donated by the U.S. and one jointly donated by Germany and the Netherlands. The Patriot, an acronym for Phased Array Tracking Radar for Intercept on Target, was designed in the 1970s. The system has been regarded as one of America&#8217;s most advanced surface-to-air missile defense systems and costs approximately $1 billion per installation.
Earlier this month, a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-slap-in-the-face-for-russia-42-year-old-u-s-weapon-beats-russias-most-feared-cutting-edge-missile">shot down</a> a Russian hypersonic missile in Ukraine, marking perhaps the first time a hypersonic missile has been shot down in combat.
Ukraine Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk claimed Ukraine used the newly-acquired weapon from the U.S. to shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile called Kinzhal, or &#8220;Dagger&#8221; in Russian.

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A 56-year-old elementary school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teacher</a> formerly employed by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Defense</a> Education Activity will spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexually abusing four students between 6 and 8 years old.
From 2001 to 2021, Stefan Zappey taught first through third grade at Patch Elementary, a school on a U.S. military base near Stuggart, Germany. Zappey was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-elementary-school-teacher-convicted-sexually-abusing-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> by a federal jury in January of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and four counts of abusive sexual contact, according to the Department of Justice. He was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. 
“Zappey’s offenses are especially egregious because he was entrusted with teaching the children of our brave service members overseas,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-elementary-school-teacher-sentenced-life-prison-sexually-abusing-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kenneth Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Criminal Division. “The courage of the victims and the perseverance of investigators and prosecutors ensured that Zappey’s offenses were exposed and will prevent him from abusing even more children.”
One of Zappey’s former students came forward in 2020, telling Army criminal investigators that the former elementary school teacher touched her under her clothing while she was attending the school from 2009 to 2010. She also said Zappey called her to his desk during class and repeatedly fondled her. The victim, who was 8 years old at the time of the abuse, said she didn’t report Zappey&#8217;s crimes right away because she “didn’t know it was wrong,” <a href="https://www.kttn.com/former-elementary-school-teacher-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court documents. 
After launching an investigation, officials found that Zappey sexually abused at least four of his students by touching them on multiple occasions and placing his hands inside their underwear to touch their genitals. 
Other students and even some faculty members said they saw Zappey hug students multiple times and had them sit on his lap, touching their backs and stomachs under their clothes, the DOJ press release said. One faculty member said Zappey “would train students to become ‘touchy-feely,’” according to court documents. 
The FBI joined the Army Criminal Investigation Division in investigating the case. The case was a part of Project Safe Childhood, a DOJ initiative combatting child sexual exploitation. 
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This is part 1 of a series documenting the U.S. Government’s response to UFOs. The segment originally aired on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/ufos-go-mainstream-4-30-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a>. 
For decades, the term UFO – or unidentified flying object – has conjured images of crazed conspiracy theorists, with conversations on the topic typically relegated to fringe corners of the internet. But that stigma has begun to collapse in recent years as it’s become clear that something unexplained is in our skies. 
Hundreds of credible, documented UFO cases have perplexed our leading scientists and military officials and prompted action from Congress and the Pentagon, which have deemed the issue a serious national security threat.
Now, after years of denying the legitimacy of UFOs, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged a decades-long effort to investigate and explain the phenomena.
<h2>Out Of The Shadows</h2>
UFOs have long held a unique place in American culture, with countless stories of strange craft in our skies told by those convinced they’d seen something unexplainable. 
But those tales were often backed up, at best, by grainy camcorder footage or blurry polaroid pictures, and, at worst, by the word of eyewitnesses. 
For decades, the federal government led the American people to believe they were staying out of the matter, lending credibility to those who believed stories of UFOs were nothing more than urban legend. But behind the scenes, officials at the highest levels of government had spent decades – and hundreds of millions of dollars – investigating the phenomena in secret. 
First, there was <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Blue Book</a>, a top secret Air Force initiative that investigated thousands of UFO reports from 1947 to 1969. According to internal documents, the project concluded most of the sightings involved conventional aircraft or spy planes, but 701 incidents were classified as “unexplained.” 
After Project Blue Book was disclosed to the public in 1976, it appeared the government had given up on its efforts to investigate the matter. But in 2017, a ground-breaking New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> revealed the existence of a modern-day Pentagon UFO program called AATIP — Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 
AATIP was tasked with compiling evidence of what they deemed UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) and attempting to investigate and, more importantly, explain their origins. 
According to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who for years pushed for UFO research behind the scenes, much of the funding for AATIP came from “black money” programs to keep it from the public.
But in recent years, the public, and lawmakers alike, have begun to demand answers on what the government has found. 
<h2>Evidence Mounts</h2>
According to Pentagon officials, AATIP and other similar programs have turned their focus toward UFOs reported near military bases, studying service members who say they’d suffered physical effects after encounters with unidentified craft, and according to the New York Times, analyzing “metal alloys and other materials … recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” 
Perhaps most notably, the government also began gathering video recordings and radar data from reported UFO incidents, including footage captured by military planes and ships. While the vast majority of those videos remain classified, some have leaked to the general public. 
Three such <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_M0hLlJ-Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">videos</a>, which leaked in 2017 and 2018, show U.S. pilots tracking craft that behaved in unusual ways, accelerating at incredible speeds and bewildering pilots in pursuit. 
As the videos circulated online there were questions about their legitimacy, but in 2020, the Pentagon confirmed they were authentic cases of “unidentified aerial phenomena.” 
In one of the videos from 2015, a craft moving at high speed is recorded flying into strong winds while spinning like a top in a way that pilots say seemed to defy the laws of known physics. 
Another video, which garnered the most attention, came from a UFO incident off the coast of San Diego. 
It was 2004 and the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting training operations 100 miles off the coast when advanced radar systems began picking up “multiple anomalous aerial vehicles” operating over the horizon. 
Those craft were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> on multiple tracking systems descending 80,000 feet in seconds and hovering at 20,000 feet for hours on end before shooting back up into the sky and disappearing from radar. 
Navy Commander David Fravor oversaw the F-18 Squadron on the Nimitz and was dispatched with his co-pilot and another F-18 to investigate. When they arrived, Commander Fravor said the ocean was smooth, but there was a patch of “roiling whitewater” where waves were breaking on a large object that appeared to be just below the ocean surface.
Above that object was a smaller, 40-foot long “tic-tac shaped craft” darting back and forth erratically at high speed. According to Fravor, the craft had no wings, no markings, and no visible signs of propulsion. 
When Fravor descended to get closer to the object, it began ascending towards them, mimicking their flight pattern until it was within a short distance of the F-18. Then, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY&amp;t=386s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fravor and his co-pilot</a>, it vanished. 
Seconds after the craft disappeared, the USS Princeton – a Navy cruiser in the area – picked it up on radar 60 miles away. 
<a href="https://entertainermag.com/blog/2019/08/30/exploring-the-unbelievable-navy-veteran-kevin-day-to-speak-at-ufo-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Navy Senior Chief Kevin Day, an operations specialist aboard the USS Princeton, the craft at one point descended 28,000 feet in .78 seconds, meaning it was traveling around 24,000 miles per hour. Despite its incredible rate of speed, Day says the object produced “no sonic booms.”
According to Day, the technology was far beyond anything in our arsenal. “If they had been hostile, there is absolutely nothing we could’ve done to protect ourselves from these things.”
When Fravor returned to the Nimitz, another F-18 squadron was scrambled in pursuit of the object and was able to capture it briefly on the plane’s imaging system, before it disappeared again. 
<h2>“Beyond Anything We’re Capable Of”</h2>
According to Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence, those incidents are just the tip of the UFO iceberg. 
Mellon served under Presidents Clinton and Bush and says the military has hundreds of similar videos and reports that show craft with technology far exceeding our own, making high-speed turns at a right angle, hovering totally stationary in high winds above the open ocean for hours on end, and climbing tens of thousands of feet in seconds.
“These vehicles seem to have unlimited loiter time, which we don’t have. … Then the acceleration is beyond — far beyond anything that we’re capable of … there’s nothing we can build that can endure that amount of force and acceleration,” Mellon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygB4EZ7ggig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, in a “60 Minutes” interview in 2021.
Lue Elizondo, the man who spent years heading up AATIP at the Pentagon, has offered similar accounts.
“Over the past several decades we in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community have been noticing things in our airspace that don’t have wings, they don’t have cockpits, they don’t even have an obvious sign of propulsion, and yet still they’re able to defy the natural effects of earth’s gravity,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA-h3dIeD_A&amp;t=119s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Elizondo.
Cabot Phillips is the Senior Editor at the Daily Wire. He can be heard regularly on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/ufos-go-mainstream-4-30-23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a> podcast.

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President Joe Biden authorized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense Department</a> officials on Thursday to deploy active duty and reserve soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an international drug trafficking crisis overwhelming the southern border and American communities.
Biden issued an executive order enclosed in a letter to Congress authorizing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to &#8220;order to active duty units and individual members of the Ready Reserve … to ensure DOD can sustain its support of DHS concerning international drug trafficking along the southwest border.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> authorizes <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SECDEF</a> and Homeland Security SEC &quot;to order to active duty such units and individual members of the Ready Reserve to ensure&quot; DoD can &quot;properly sustain its support&quot; of Homeland Security &quot;concerning international drug trafficking along the Southwest Border.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FZlBwfYWSO">pic.twitter.com/FZlBwfYWSO</a>
&mdash; Howard Altman (@haltman) <a href="https://twitter.com/haltman/status/1651636998107537409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Since Biden took office over two years ago, lawmakers estimate up to six million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border. Critics of the administration argue drug cartels have taken advantage of Biden’s open border policies by smuggling deadly narcotics inside the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram told Republican members of a House Appropriations Committee panel during a budget <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Thursday that authorities estimated more than 107,000 Americans died last year from violence and drug overdose at the hands of two major Mexican drug cartels — the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation criminal organizations.
Milgram called both organizations &#8220;the greatest drug threat this country has ever faced.&#8221;
&#8220;The drug cartels responsible for bringing fentanyl into this country are ruthless and extremely violent criminal enterprises,&#8221; Milgram said. &#8220;They rely on a global supply chain to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, and they rely on a global illicit financial network to pocket billions of dollars.&#8221;
DEA officials <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mapped</a> out the multi-faceted fentanyl crisis three years ago as the flow of the deadly opioid became more diverse compared to its start in 2014. According to the agency, Mexico and China are the primary sources, along with India, for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked directly into the United States.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed &#8220;a lack of love&#8221; in American families for the deadly fentanyl crisis ravaging the U.S., saying the country does not produce fentanyl, calling the crisis America&#8217;s problem.
&#8220;Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl,&#8221; López Obrador said, suggesting that the U.S. instead take care of its problem of &#8220;social decay.&#8221;
The State Department estimated that $154 billion in illicit funds pass through China annually, labeling the nation as a global hub of money laundering activity.
Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) said during a House oversight <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/mcclain-china-playing-major-role-in-enriching-cartels-funding-deadly-fentanyl-epidemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Wednesday that drug cartels and Chinese money laundering organizations have partnered together and created a system that uses Chinese banking apps and other popular Chinese encrypted communications technology, like WeChat.
&#8220;Prior to the rise of Chinese Money Laundering Organizations, cartels laundered their profits on the black-market peso exchange and had to wait at least a week before they received their &#8216;clean&#8217; funds,&#8221; McClain said. &#8220;Now, Chinese Money Laundering Organizations have a system that ensures that cartels receive their profits within hours of handing over illicit drug funds to a courier.&#8221;
&#8220;Not only are these Chinese Money Laundering Organizations able to do this quickly and with incredible efficiency, they do it at a fraction of the cost that cartels were previously forced to pay,&#8221; she added.
Biden&#8217;s authorization of deploying soldiers to the southern border comes as his administration braces for another record surge of migration when the Title 42 COVID restrictions officially end May 11, which has blocked immigrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border more than 2.5 million times before the pandemic.
&#8220;We do anticipate a surge in the number of encounters,&#8221; Mayorkas told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Estimates <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-title-42-migrant-centers-latin-america-deportations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by media say internal projections show that arrivals could spike to between 10,000 and 13,000 per day next month.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/mcclain-china-playing-major-role-in-enriching-cartels-funding-deadly-fentanyl-epidemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the U.S. would establish regional processing centers for immigrants seeking entry to reduce the number of arrivals after the restrictions end.
&#8220;Our border is not open and will not be open after May 11,&#8221; Mayorkas said.
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The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that it has temporarily suspended two officers who were in command over Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who is accused of leaking classified military intelligence on the internet.
Teixeira was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-garland-gives-update-as-fbi-makes-arrest-in-connection-with-leak-of-u-s-military-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> by FBI agents in North Dighton, Massachusetts, two weeks ago and was charged with unlawful retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. If convicted of both charges, Teixeira faces up to 15 years in prison.
&#8220;The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, has suspended the commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron pending further investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information,&#8221; <a href="https://whdh.com/news/air-force-suspends-leadership-for-unit-of-suspected-pentagon-document-leaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Ann Stefanek, a spokesperson for the Air Force.
“Additionally, the detachment commander overseeing administrative support for Airmen at the unit mobilized for duty under Title 10 USC has also been suspended,” she continued. “This means that both the squadron’s state Air National Guard operational commander and current federal orders administrative commander have been suspended pending completion of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General Investigation.”
Stefanek added that the Air Force has temporarily removed both officers&#8217; ability to access classified systems and information.
Teixeira is accused of posting hundreds of photographs of classified U.S. military intelligence on a private discord server over a period of months.
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The leak has led to U.S. officials implementing new restrictions on who gets access to highly classified material, although some have warned that the effort may go too far.
“I would like to see a reaction to where we start protecting what’s important with the right kind of systems, the right kind of protection, the right kind of discipline, but my fear is the overreaction will be the opposite, to classify more and think somehow that if we classify it somehow we protect it,” John Hyten, a retired four-star Air Force general who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-u-s-government-tightens-classified-document-controls-concerns-emerge-about-overreach-389a651">told</a> The Wall Street Journal. “The key is to identify the critical information, identify who has the need to know, and don’t let anybody else in.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Defense</a> officials extended the organization’s contract with an electric flying taxi company on Tuesday, moving U.S. Air Force aviators one step closer to remotely piloting cargo and people using advanced aircraft technology from the ground.
Joby Aviation, a company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, announced the $55 million extension, raising the contract&#8217;s total value with the USAF up to $131 million.
&#8220;This extension of our contract with the Department of Defense is an important milestone for both Joby and the broader eVTOL industry,&#8221; Paul Sciarra, Joby&#8217;s executive chairman, told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/air-force-evtol-taxi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
The agreement requires the company to deliver and operate up to nine of its five-seat, low-noise aircraft that operate on zero emissions to the military branch and other federal agencies, including NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Joby officials said in a news release that Edwards Air Force Base in California would likely receive the first two aircraft by early 2024.
Among demonstrating a range of potential logistic use cases, including cargo and passenger transportation, Joby officials expect Edwards Air Force Base to become the first U.S. military base to station electric air taxis.
Sciarra said the contract marks the first delivery of eVTOL aircraft to customers, the first training of non-company pilots on an eVTOL, and likely the first revenue-generating operations of eVTOL in the U.S. and potentially the world.
&#8220;These are real aircraft deployed in real situations against real use-cases, so we&#8217;ll get invaluable feedback and operational experience far in advance of commercial operations,&#8221; he said.
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Four Air Force pilots became the first Air Force personnel to remotely fly the advanced aircraft from the ground last week, which included transitions from vertical to wingborne flight.
The announcement comes amid Air Force officials working with several eVTOL manufacturers through the <a href="https://afwerx.com/agility-prime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Agility Prime</a> program, which aims to transform how public-private partnerships can deliver &#8220;trailblazing technology at speed,&#8221; JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby, said in a <a href="https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-aviation-to-deliver-aircraft-to-edwards-air-force-base/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
&#8220;As well as allowing us to explore the wide range of potential use cases across the U.S. government, our defense partners have also provided us with high-impact support as we prepare for commercial operations in 2025,&#8221; Bevirt said.
The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps have all expressed interest in the capabilities of eVTOL aircraft since the officials established Agility Program in 2020.
Bipartisan members of Congress penned a <a href="https://panetta.house.gov/sites/panetta.house.gov/files/documents/2023.02.23_DOT_AAM%20Leadership%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> in February to the Department of Transportation, calling for stronger U.S. leadership in Advanced Air Mobility.
&#8220;We are at a pivotal time in aviation. In just a few short years, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) and other forms of emerging aviation technologies will be operating in our National Airspace System (NAS), changing the way in which goods and people move within rural and urban areas,&#8221; the letter reads.
Lawmakers argue the new era of aviation could usher in an estimated $1 trillion and 400,000 new jobs to economies worldwide.
Last month, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/032023-National-Aeronautics-ST-Priorities.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> its support for the aircraft technology, identifying clean aviation as a top priority.
Axios reported that Joby is <a class="gtmContentClick" href="https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-completes-second-stage-certification-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-vars-link-text="undergoing" data-vars-click-url="https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-completes-second-stage-certification-process/" data-vars-content-id="4fcf2047-5590-463b-8581-7944646b97f8" data-vars-headline="Electric &quot;air taxis&quot; are headed to the U.S. Air Force" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link">undergoing</a> an FAA process to certify its aircraft for commercial civilian flights.

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The Department of Defense (DoD) is working to cut down the number of people who have access to secret information, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a> official said Monday following a leak of classified documents.
Officials are &#8220;culling through&#8221; distribution lists, as well as examining other issues such as printing access, as part of a &#8220;long-term&#8221; review, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT-r7bcLRYw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters during a briefing</a>.
Singh said she could not provide &#8220;exact numbers&#8221; on who has had access revoked, but did concede &#8220;actions have already been taken&#8221; in a bid to restrict the flow of sensitive information.
&#8220;We have to make sure the service members or our civilians have what they need to be able to do their job, but also we need to make sure that it is on a need-to-know basis,&#8221; she added.
The DoD says an interagency review is underway to assess the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-shares-easter-sunday-update-on-classified-docs-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">validity and national security impact</a> of images that began popping up in recent months on social media, starting with Discord, showing what appeared to be secret details about <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article274159405.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-war-plans-leak-likely-to-impact-u-s-national-security-included-internal-matters-of-several-american-allies-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine,</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/09/politics/pentagon-leaked-documents-us-spying-allies-foes/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surveillance</a> efforts, and more. In addition, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the matter following a referral from the DoD.
A 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member, Jack Teixeira, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-garland-gives-update-as-fbi-makes-arrest-in-connection-with-leak-of-u-s-military-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested and charged</a> last week in connection with the leak. Teixeira possessed a high-level security clearance, a <a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-document-leak-suspect-jack-153338196.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal complaint shows,</a> and he worked essentially as a computer network technician while assigned to an intelligence unit at a base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
A U.S. defense official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/07/pentagon-leak-ukraine-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Washington Post</a> many of the documents that appeared online look like they were prepared for Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior military officials, but stressed these records would be available broadly to people with proper clearance.
Some of the images reportedly showed documents printed on paper that had then been folded and crumpled up. Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/2023/05/05/read-leaked-secret-intelligence-documents-ukraine-vladimir-putin-1794656.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published images</a> of several of the documents on Sunday.
At the order of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a DoD post-leak assessment is expected to produce preliminary findings and recommendations for protecting classified information in 45 days, Singh said.
The Pentagon spokeswoman also offered the assurance that there is a &#8220;very robust vetting process when it comes to someone being able to have a security clearance&#8221; but noted there may be areas that could be improved upon, pending the review.

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Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/antony-blinken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a> said over the weekend that dozens of leaks of classified intelligence from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a> had not affected U.S. cooperation with allies.
The Pentagon leaks have set off a series of foreign policy controversies that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> is attempting to tamp down, from accusations of U.S. spying on allied nations to concerns among allies about the security of intelligence shared with the U.S.
Blinken and other Biden administration diplomats have attempted to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/ukraine-intel-leak-00091229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reassure</a> allies about the security of U.S. intelligence <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/">despite</a> hundreds of pages of leaked intelligence.
“We have engaged with our allies and partners since these leaks came out, and we have done so at high levels, and we have made clear our commitment to safeguarding intelligence and our commitment to our security partnerships,” said Blinken Saturday when asked about concerns he may have heard from U.S. allies over the leaks.
“What I’ve heard so far at least is an appreciation for the steps that we’re taking, and it’s not affected our cooperation. I just haven’t seen that. I haven’t heard that,” continued Blinken. “And of course, the investigation is taking its course. There’s now, as you know, a suspect in custody but importantly as well, I know, measures being taken to further safeguard information. But to date, based on the conversations I’ve had, I have not – not heard anything that would affect our cooperation with allies and partners.”
The FBI arrested 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, on Thursday and charged him with violating the Espionage Act for posting dozens of transcriptions and photos of classified documents to a private Discord server. Many of the documents later circulated freely online after a member of the Discord group posted them publicly.
U.S. allies have reportedly expressed concern over the security of U.S. intelligence before and after it was revealed that the leaks allegedly came from Teixeira, a junior IT worker in the Air National Guard. Teixeira was <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/14/1169952771/jack-teixeira-background-pentagon-document-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> top-secret security clearance to aid his unit in sharing intelligence for combat support and homeland security.
An official from a European country told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/us-intelligence-leak-allies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> that the leaks have “caused some damage as it raises doubts as to how intelligence is protected and handled.” Other nations cannot afford to restrict intelligence sharing with the U.S. because of the importance of having access to U.S. intelligence, however.
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“Intel agencies will sort this out,” the official said. “I don’t believe anyone could afford really stopping the cooperation.”
Despite the lack of action, the leaks are still “devastating” to U.S. allies, according to one former U.S. intelligence official.
“It’s hard to trust us with your secrets if we can’t protect them,” former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/pentagon-intelligence-leaks-damage-trust-among-allies-former-intel-personnel-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>.
“It’s devastating to our allies to see that kind of information being promulgated,” said Lynn. “It was shared too widely &#8230; but that’s 20-20 hindsight and easy to say now.”

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The New York Times identified on Thursday the leader of an online group where hundreds of photos of classified U.S. military documents were leaked as a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/leak-documents-likely-came-from-air-national-guardsman-at-fort-bragg-official-says-dbf48c0a">based</a> at Fort Bragg at the time of the leak.
The newspaper identified the leader as Jack Teixeira, of Bristol, Mass, who allegedly oversaw a private Discord server called &#8220;Thug Shaker Central&#8221; that was comprised of a couple dozen like-minded men and boys.
The report said that U.S. officials want to talk Teixeira because they believe that he &#8220;might have information relevant to the investigation.&#8221;
The New York Times showed up to Teixeira&#8217;s family home and was informed by his mother that he was a member of the Air National Guard and that he changed his phone number in the last few days.
The Times said that a person who appeared to be Teixeira later drove up to the home and that when the Times and asked if he was willing to speak to them, a man on the driveway told them that was not a good idea.
“He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now,&#8221; the man told the Times. &#8220;The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”
Shortly after The New York Times published its report, Reuters reported: &#8220;An Air National guardsman suspected of leaking classified Pentagon documents will be arrested today in Massachusetts.&#8221;
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A member of the group <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/">told</a> The Washington Post that the alleged leaker, referred to as &#8220;OG,&#8221; expressed anti-government sentiment but they did not believe he was trying to help any foreign power, and they think he was trying to show off.
“If you had classified documents, you’d want to flex at least a little bit, like hey, I’m the big guy,” one member said, later adding, “I would definitely not call him a whistleblower. I would not call OG a whistleblower in the slightest.”
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The documents that were leaked contained information about battlefield conditions in Ukraine, information on foreign adversary&#8217;s weapons systems, assessments on how deeply U.S. intelligence had penetrated into the Russian military, information on Egypt planning to sell weapons to Russia, and much more.
The report said there were numerous forensic clues left behind by the leaker that would likely prove to be highly useful for U.S. law enforcement in identifying the suspect.
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/04/13/biden-pentagon-leak-investigation-close">said</a> this week that the U.S. authorities were &#8220;getting close&#8221; to catching the person responsible for the leak.
CNN <a href="https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1646518629037658118">reported</a> Thursday that the FBI has narrowed down the number of people who could be responsible to a &#8220;small number&#8221; of suspects and are &#8220;working on building a case for prosecution.&#8221;
OG&#8217;s continued leaking of classified material eventually leaked out of the discord server after one of the members started sharing the images on February 28 with another Discord server affiliated with a YouTuber that has nearly a quarter of a million subscribers. Several days later, on March 4, more of the images started to appear on a different Discord server dedicated to the Minecraft video game.
However, the leak would still not be detected by U.S. authorities for another month when classified documents started appearing on Russian Telegram channels and 4chan, before making their way onto Twitter.
OG reportedly panicked after learning that the images had been leaked and asked members to &#8220;keep low and delete any information that could possibly relate to him,” according to a member of the group.

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The inspector general for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a> is probing the Ukrainian government for corruption related to massive amounts of aid the country has received since it was invaded by Russia last year.
Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch has over 20 audits planned and “close to 100 people engaged in oversight right now related to Ukraine” with partnerships with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a> and USAID, he said, according to <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2023/04/war-two-fronts-ukraine-takes-corruption-it-fights-russia/385068/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense One</a>. “We’re really covering the waterfront…in terms of security assistance,” Storch said.
Ukraine has a history of serious corruption issues, and those issues could pose an existential threat to the country if they undermine the trust of foreign governments that are supplying its military with advanced weapons and supplies.
Republicans are growing increasingly critical of the Biden administration’s aid to Ukraine. The U.S. is the top backer of Ukraine in its war against Moscow. Since January 2022, the U.S. has committed over $78 billion to Ukraine in military, humanitarian, and economic aid, according to the <a href="https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kiel Institute for the World Economy</a>. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/mccarthy-zelenskyy-ukraine-00086053" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the aid packages a “blank check” that lacks stringent oversight standards.
The Ukrainian government is working on rooting out corruption, but spending resources on oversight and investigations takes resources away from the war against Russia, a senior official in Storch’s office told Defense One.
“They acknowledge that they are fighting a two-front battle,” the source said. “They are fighting the Russians and they were fighting internal corruption. … Many of the people that, you know, would normally have helped fight the corruption battle on the frontlines are fighting the Russians.”
The Defense Department recognizes Ukraine’s history of corruption and considers the possibility of aid being deflected before it reaches its intended target a “high risk,” the official said.
Another official said that the Pentagon is also concerned about the theft of weapons systems and other goods being shipped to Ukraine. “DOD procures the most advanced systems in the world, there are many entities, to include foreign nations as well as criminal groups, that want to get their hands on weapons technology, etc.,” the official said, according to Defense One.
While the Biden administration has continued to echo its commitment to supporting Ukraine, reportedly leaked classified documents from the Pentagon suggest that the administration is pessimistic Ukraine can beat Russia. The documents <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/pentagon-documents-ukraine-war-assessment/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlight</a> weaknesses in Ukraine’s military, such as its weaponry and air defenses, and predict the two sides will be in a stalemate for some time.

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Senior <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a> administration officials are trying to quell anger among foreign allies over a spate of documents that have surfaced online allegedly showing top secret intelligence from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a>.
Dozens of documents have leaked online purporting to show U.S. intelligence involving the war in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a> and the governments of several of the United States’ close allies. The Pentagon has refused to confirm or deny the authenticity of the leaks, though it has partnered with the Department of Justice to investigate the documents. The purported security breach has riled and concerned other countries about the safety of intelligence in U.S. hands, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/us/politics/document-leak-pentagon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?527276-1/secretaries-blinken-austin-news-conference-philippines-counterparts&amp;live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> Tuesday that they had been in contact with officials from other countries to “reassure them.”
“We have engaged with allies and partners at high levels over the past days, including to reassure them about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence and, of course, our commitment to our security partnerships,” Blinken said.
Austin said that investigators have not yet pinpointed when the leak may have taken place or to what extent U.S. intelligence may have been compromised.
“The documents that we are aware of are dated the 28th of February, 1st of March. I don&#8217;t know if there are other documents that are, that have been online before. These are things that we will find out as we continue to investigate,” he said. “We will continue to investigate and try to determine the full scope of the activity.”
The documents have suggested some explosive claims involving multiple governments, such as Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, involved in instigating protests against the Israeli government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/3941464-israel-denies-spy-agency-was-involved-in-countrys-anti-government-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the allegations, calling them “mendacious.”
Another document suggested that a NATO coalition group of special forces operators were in Ukraine. The group allegedly involved troops from the U.S., France, and several other countries. France has <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/france-denies-military-presence-in-ukraine/#:~:text=The%20French%20government%20denied%20on,Lecornu%20told%20the%20French%20outlet." target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> having any troops on the ground in Ukraine.
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South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol has been on the defensive against attacks from South Korea’s opposition party on Yoon’s relationship with the U.S. after the documents purported to show that the U.S. government had spied on South Korea. Yoon has <a href="https://time.com/6269905/us-pentagon-leaked-documents-south-korea/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the relationship with the U.S. is “strong,” but believes that “the Korean public is really upset that the U.S. is not trusting South Korea.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon can&#8217;t explain why it has failed</a> an audit five times in a row, nor what happened to billions upon billions of U.S. taxpayers&#8217; dollars, and you ask them about potential corruption, their main defense is to insult your intelligence. Even the beloved leftist Jon Stewart received that treatment as he tread too closely to the topic during an interview with the Department of Defense&#8217;s number two in command.
Stewart recently sat down with Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks for an interview on C-SPAN. During that conversation, Stewart brought up<a href="https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/11/16/dod-fails-audit-cites-ukraine-as-teachable-moment-in-accountability/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the Pentagon&#8217;s inability to keep its books straight</a>, but Hicks denied that its failure was in any way sign of corruption or irresponsibility.
&#8220;The ability to pass an audit or, the fact that the DoD has not passed an audit is not suggestive of waste, fraud, and abuse. That is completely false, right there,&#8221; Hicks said during the back and forth, in a rather dismissive tone.
&#8220;So, what it is suggestive of?&#8221; Stewart replied.
&#8220;It’s suggestive that we can’t – we don’t have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have where,&#8221; she responded defiantly. &#8220;That is not the same as saying, &#8216;We can’t do that because waste, fraud, and abuse has occurred.'&#8221;
Of course, a sharp observer would question how she can so definitively say that &#8220;waste, fraud, and abuse&#8221; has not occurred when the Pentagon does not have reliable data on the topic, by their own admission. Stewart wasn&#8217;t done though, and offered a reasonable rebuttal.
&#8220;So, in my world, that’s waste,&#8221; he said.
Hicks didn&#8217;t get it, asking, &#8220;How is that waste?&#8221;
&#8220;If I give you a billion dollars and you can’t tell me what happened to it, that to me is wasteful,&#8221; the former Comedy Central host explained. &#8220;That means you are not responsible. But if you can’t tell me where it went, then what am I supposed to think? And when there has been reporting – I mean, this is not, look, I’m not saying this is on you and that you caused this.&#8221;
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As numerous people pointed out on Twitter, Stewart often behaves as a de facto propagandist for the Democratic Party. He asked a pretty straightforward question that was met with contempt. In turn, the Biden administration&#8217;s incompetence at best and willful obtuseness at worst were exposed. Why is it up to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-family-got-over-a-million-from-china-but-nobody-in-the-democrat-media-complex-cares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrat-Media Complex-friendly</a> comedian to shed light on potential corruption?
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This video shows why the media is the way it is. Government officials can’t even respond to BASIC questions from fellow stooges of the regime like Jon Stewart. He poses not threat. He coddles them. But even basic questioning and it’s a meltdown. Imagine if we had a real press. <a href="https://t.co/SNZYPQc4HX">https://t.co/SNZYPQc4HX</a>
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