Jack Teixeira - report

American airman and alleged leaker (born 2001)

Jack Douglas Teixeira is an American airman in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. In April 2023, following an investigation into the removal and disclosure of hundreds of classified Pentagon documents, Teixeira was arrested by FBI agents and charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.

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Jack Teixeira, 21, is accused of abusing his security clearance to take classified documents and post them on social media sites. Investigators say he illegally disseminated classified military information to members of an online messaging platform. If convicted on all counts, the 21-year-old faces up to 25 years in federal prison.
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Former Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira will be detained while he awaits trial. Judge David Hennessy said there was “a profound breach of the defendant’s word that he would protect information related to the security of the United States. TeixEira is accused of sharing classified military documents on Discord, a social media platform.
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Jack Teixeira is charged with leaking highly classified military documents. He is accused of sharing the documents in a chatroom on a social media platform. Prosecutors say superiors raised concerns about his handling of classified information.
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Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested by the FBI earlier this month. The 21-year-old allegedly shared large sets of secret documents on an online chat server made up primarily of teenagers called “Thug Shaker Central”
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Jack Teixeira appeared in federal court in Boston on Friday. His father shouted at him during the short appearance before judges: 'I love you, Jack!' The leak is the most embarrassing - and perhaps the most damaging - for the US since the WikiLeaks scandal in 2013.