Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who has been charged with leaking classified documents, will be arraigned on Wednesday afternoon in federal court.
on Discord, a social media platform primarily used by online gamers, after allegedly obtaining the records while serving as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman.
Teixeira was arrested by FBI agents in April and has remained in federal custody since mid-May, after a judge granted a motion for detention from prosecutors who argued that he poses a flight risk. Teixeira accessed classified documents including national defense information from a classified workstation at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, and transcribed text in the documents, which he then published on the social media platform, the indictment said.
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