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A federal jury has indicted serviceman Jack Teixeira on six counts of deliberately storing and leaking classified national defense information, the Washington Department of Justice said Thursday (local time). Teixeira was arrested by the FBI in Massachusetts on April 13 after criminal charges were filed against him. Since then, the 21-year-old has been behind bars for security reasons.
“Teixeira is charged with providing information to users of a social media platform that he knew they were not authorized to receive,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. The US government entrusted the IT specialist with access to classified information, including information that he should know would cause serious damage to US national security if passed on. If convicted, the man faces up to 10 years in prison, the ministry said.
Teixeira joined the National Guard in September 2019 and received official permission to view top secret government documents in 2021. As of January 2022, he allegedly deliberately published information classified as “secret” and “top secret” in a closed chat room on the Discord platform popular with video gamers. From there, they spread on the internet until authorities and the media discovered them. The leak only became public in April of this year. (SDA)
Source: Blick
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