‘Our job is oversight’: Congress to probe how damaging leak of highly-classified DOD documents happened
Jamie McIntyre
‘A DELIBERATE CRIMINAL ACT’: Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is due to appear in federal court today after his arrest without incident at his parents' home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, yesterday afternoon.
Teixeira, 21, is alleged to be the leader of Thug Shaker Central, a private online chat group on the platform Discord, where for months, highly-classified briefing slides were shared with a small group of teenage gamers.
The young airman was working as a “cyber transport systems journeyman,” essentially an IT or information technology expert, for the Guard's 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.
Teixeira was arrested “in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a brief statement.
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