Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified Pentagon documents, is due in Boston federal court Wednesday. Authorities believe he leaked documents to a Discord server that focused on war, guns and racist memes.
that Teixeira saw himself as an unofficial leader of the group and wanted to teach members "about actual war.”and charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material. He did not enter a formal plea during his arraignment on Friday.Teixeira had been assigned a federal defender for his detention hearing at 11am Wednesday in Boston federal court.
For his job as a cyber defense operations journeyman, Teixeira had to sign a lifetime non-disclosure agreement that states he could face criminal charges for sharing classified information, per the affidavit.
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