Pizzagate Troll Retweeted By Trump Revealed As Navy Reserve Officer With Suspended Security Clearance

NBC News reports:

A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed to a reserve unit, Navy service records show.

John Michael Posobiec III’s security clearance is currently suspended, according to a U.S. official, who did not disclose the reason for the suspension.

Posobiec, who goes by Jack, is a lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy Reserves, assigned to Joint Reserve Intelligence Support Element Dekalb. From March 2014 through March 2017 he was assigned to a Reserve Intelligence Unit at Office of Naval Intelligence’s Naval Maritime Intelligence Center in Washington.

He sometimes refers to his military service, most recently in a video posted this week in which he said it showed he is not a racist. Although he referred to multiple overseas deployments, his service record shows one: 10 months in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, starting Sept. 11, 2012.