NEW: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman has been charged with possessing classified documents pertaining to national security and possessing national defense materials. The charges carry a maximum of 10 years in prison.
It wasn't immediately clear how federal authorities believe Teixeira, who holds the rank of airman first class, could have gained access to sensitive Pentagon material, especially records pertaining to Russia'sTeixeira has been in uniform since entering the Air National Guard in September 2019. He has been based at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod and is assigned as a cyber transport systems journeyman.
His arrest followed weeks of intense work by federal authorities, seeking the source of the leak, which exposed potentially hundreds of pages of intelligence about Russian efforts in Ukraine and spying on U.S. allies.Brian Michael reported from Boston, and David K. Li from New York City.
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