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comes looking don't tell them, expletive. they also ask why he was a candidate for the international guard given his history surrounding guns. tonight the pentagon is defending its procedures. >> i think it's important necessarily to take the actions of one individual and somehow paint a picture that that indicates a systemic breakdown and again this is under investigation in the investigation will tell us a lot more about this particular individual and what he did and did not do. >> cordach yamin states in 2018 teixeira was suspended while in high school after a classmate allegedly overheard him making remarks about guns and racial threats. that same year, prosecutors say he applied for a firearms i.d. card, but was denied due to concerns of a local police department over the defendants remarks at his high school. court documents mentioned his social media posts reviewed by the fbi. one post from last november wreaths, i hope ices goes
prosecutors wonder why teixeira was a candidate for the air national guard. >> i think it's important not necessarily to take the actions of one individual and somehow paint a picture that that indicates a systemic breakdown. this is under investigation and the investigation will tell us a lot more about this particular individual and what he did and did not do. >> the court document states in 2018, he was suspended in high school after a classmate overheard him making remarks about guns and racial threats. that same year, prosecutors say, he applied for a firearms i.d. card but does denied due to the concerns of the local police department over the defendant's remarks at his high school. court documents mention his social media posts reviewed by the fbi. one post from last november reads, i hope isis goes through an attack plan and creates a massacre at the world cup. saying, if i had my way, i would
remarks about guns and make racial threats. that same year, prosecutors say, he applied for a firearms i.d. card but was denied due to the concerns of the local police department over the defendant's remarks at his high school. court documents mention his social media posts reviewed by the fbi. one post from last november reads, i hope isis goes through with their attack plan and key eights a mat kerr at the world cup, further writing, if i had my way, i'd kill a ton of people. seriously, i would be forcibly culling the weak minded. prosecutors say the defense is indicating they may ask the judge to release teixeira to his father's home. warning the defendant has been proven to be nothing short of deceptive in pursuit of his own freedom. and poppy, as we were looking through the court filing from late last night, this is something else that we found. another tis turbing allegation.
then what we're learning as you look back further is that it's amazing, it seems, that he got a security clearance at this level given past comments and experiences. >> it really is. and unone of the things you hea early on, the fbi knew there were going to be red flags that turned up, and exactly that is what they found. one of the things they found is back in high school he had made some comments that may have raised concerns that he might be trying to plan a mass shooting. and so he was suspended from school. this prevented him from getting a gun i.d., a firearms i.d. in the state of massachusetts. he was denied in 2018. in 2019. in 2020, however, he writes a letter to the state police there trying to get, again, his license to buy a gun, and this is what he says. he is now a member of the air force, and he says i was very concerned that my decisions i made at 16 would haunt my future serving my country in the
military, and i'm glad they did not. he was able to get that firearms i.d. because the air force had given him a top secret security clearance. obviously if the government -- if the military is entrusting him with some of the nation's biggest secrets, he should be able to buy a gun. >> it raises questions again, about oversight, how these clearances are awarded and how red flags, it seems, are missed. >> just like millions of dollars spent to try to prevent things like this. >> exactly, and past expertise is no question. thanks so much. >> let's expand the conversation. we have with us former assistant homeland security secretary juliet, a cnn national security analyst, and josh rogen with us, a columnist at "the washington post." let's start with the point that jim and evan were just making. violent racist remarks in his history, he was suspended at one point, and yet, he gets top security clearance. >> i'm not excusing him, but there are lots of things people do when they're 16 that later on
the photos show a gun locker next to his bed, containing multiple weapons, including an ak style weapon, hand guns, shotguns, and a gas mask. prosecutors say law enforcement also found a smashed tab let, tap lot, and a gaming console in a dumpster. teixeira also obstructed justice by telling those he was communicating with online to delete all messages, and if anyone comes looking, don't tell them expleexpletive. also that he deleted the social media server where he posted government information and procured a new phone number and email address. prosecutors also questioned where he was a candidate for the air national guard given his hi try surrounding guns. the court document states in 2018 he was suspended while in high school after a classmate allegedly overheard him making remarks about guns and racial threats. that same year, prosecutors say he applied for a firearms i.d.
this is under investigation and the investigation will tell us a lot more about this particular individual and what he did and did not do. >> reporter: the court document states in 2018 he was suspended while in high school after a classmate allegedly overheard him making remarks about guns and racial threats. that same area, prosecutors say, he applied for a firearms i.d. card but was denied, due to the concerns of the local police department over the defendant's remarks at his high school. court documents mention his social media posts reviewed by the fbi. one post from last november reads, i hope isis goes through with their attack plan and creates a massacre at the world cup. going on to say, if i had my way, i would kill a ton of people. and as defense attorneys left the courthouse, we asked them if they had any comment at all about the court proceeding, or their client. they had no comment. the judge in this case, it is
and racial threats. a claim that prompted local police to deny him of firearms i.d. card but still he managed to join the massachusetts air national guard and gain top-secret clearance. prosecutors now accuse teixeira of accessing far more secret information and then the hundreds of pages he allegedly posted online, searching the classified government database almost daily, sometimes from a computer at his he tried to cover his tracks, smashing his laptop and ipad, replacing s bail, it would be all too easy for him to further disseminate classified information or to flee to a foreign country, like edward snowden, who now lives in russia. today teixeira's father told the judge if his son were allowed to stay with him while awaiting trial, he would report any violations of the terms of
stopping them from fully understanding the seriousness and scale of teixeira's conduct. in march 2018 a year and a half before he enlisted prosecutors say teixeira was suspended from his high school when a classmate heard him talking about weapons and making racial threats. the incident prevented him from getting a firearms i.d. card that same year and the year after according to court documents. in 2020 he still managed to join the air national guard, where he'd get a top secret clearance using his service to show he'd be trusted with a firearm. the pentagon asked how this wasn't a red flag. >> the department is looking not only at our intelligence processes and procedures as it relates to security -- or sensitive information and who has that information but also looking at the process by which we clear and vet individuals for security clearances. and that work is ongoing. >> reporter: authorities say he had an arsenal of weapons just feet from his bed including rivals, a.r. and a.k. style weapons and a bazooka.