“No, he was a great guy”

Jack Teixeira sure is a prize:

Dighton police also took statements from several students who said Teixeira had made violent threats against Black people. They told investigators that Teixeira said, “I want to kill all Black people,” “Black people don’t exist,” and “I hate n—–s,” according to the police report. One student said Teixeira used the phrase “I want to kill all Black people” in his automotive class “a lot.”

One female student who reported Teixeira to administrators told police that he “makes racist comments and is always talking about guns or war and that she had also heard about him killing animals,” according to the report. The student also noted that Teixeira was attempting to obtain a firearms identification card “and that someone should know about it.” In the state of Massachusetts, the card permits the possession of “non-large-capacity rifles, shotguns, and ammunition.”

You read the whole thing and you rapidly come to the conclusion that Connor and Maddie need to be kept away from the internet forever. In policy terms it’s hard to imagine how to idiot-proof the national security enterprise; steps taken to prevent dudes like Teixeira from accessing intel will necessarily reduce the circulation of information and make the whole organization dumber.