The New York Times has been accused of double standards by its own military correspondent, who noted his colleagues ‘worked feverishly’ to reveal who was behind the Pentagon leaks – yet would have worked equally intensely to protect his identity if he had leaked the documents to them.

David Philipps, military correspondent for the Gray Lady, tweeted: ‘The NYT worked feverishly to find the identity of the guy leaking TS docs on Discord. Ironically, if they same guy had leaked to the NYT, we’d be working feverishly to conceal it.’

Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman, was named by the paper on Thursday as being behind the leak of the classified files, which he is accused of sharing on the social media platform Discord.

Ninety minutes after Teixeira was identified by the paper, the FBI arrived at Teixeira’s home in North Dighton, Massachusetts and arrested him.

[So twisted I can just about believe it. ~ Beege]