Have you ever experienced one of those situations where you thought something seemed like a good idea, at first, but almost immediately after, you realize how perfectly stupid it was?

I think we’ve all had those moments. Some, however, have much heavier consequences than others.

We discussed Jackson Cosko earlier this week.

Cosko is the 27 year old, now former staffer of Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. He was arrested on Wednesday, after being caught on Tuesday night, apparently creeping in after 10 pm into New Hampshire Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan’s office, then using another aide’s computer and log-in information.

He’s also responsible for posting the personal information of Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), and Mike Lee (Utah) to their Wikipedia pages.

This was the misguided millennial’s act of “resistance” against three Republican senators who were supporting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as those acts of “doxing” went on during the Kavanaugh testimony, on September 27.

He was charged with five federal offenses: making public restricted personal information, making threats in interstate commerce, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, and witness tampering. The criminal complaint against him also charges him with second-degree burglary and unlawful entry, which are both criminal offenses in D.C.

Oh, Mr. Cosko. You’re all youth and no brains, it appears.

On October 2, he struck again, posting the personal information of two additional senators.

It appears his plan was to endanger the well being of every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

After appearing before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, she ordered him to be detained, and he will sit there until a hearing on Tuesday of next week. From August until his arrest, Cosko worked as an unpaid fellow with the office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, which said it ended his fellowship and is cooperating in the investigation.

He also worked for 17 months as an aide to Hassan, as well as former Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

So how did this criminal mastermind get caught, exactly?

First of all, it began with just basic tracing of the IP address of the accounts making changes to the Wikipedia pages.

The affidavit shows that police traced back the address to the House wired network. Cosko used his personal ID and password to access the particular computer used.

Brilliant.

Other entries were made using the House and Senate guest wireless network.

It gets better.

According to police, Cosko tried to threaten the Hassan staffer who recognized him when he broke into the lawmaker’s office on Tuesday night. An email message to the witness was titled “I own EVERYTHING” and said, ““If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials.”

Wow. He’s a nasty little troll, isn’t he?

Nasty, but again, not bright. That may work (for a time) as long as he’s outside of prison walls, but can he use those same threats on the inside?

He may get the opportunity to test that out.

The maximum prison time total for the five federal offenses is 33 years, with the Washington offenses carrying a maximum of 15 years for second-degree burglary and another six months for unlawful entry.

So he’s looking at almost 50 years of prison because of an act of partisan sabotage. He wanted to ruin those senators’ lives, but pretty much ruined his own.

His detention hearing is set for 1:30 pm on Tuesday.

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