New Leak Filing Shows Pentagon Missed Suspect’s Violent Threats
Story by Peter Martin • Thursday
(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon came under new pressure to explain why it failed to catch the airman accused of leaking classified information after prosecutors revealed that he had accessed secrets with no link to his job and posted online about violent fantasies such as killing the “weak minded.”
An 18-page government filing ahead of a new detention hearing for 21-year-old Jack Teixeira added vivid new detail to the litany of information about him. Among the allegations: His access of classified information “far exceeds what has been publicly disclosed” and that he had been suspended from high school in 2018 for comments he made about guns and racial threats.
According to the FBI document, Teixeira he had “stated that if he had his way, he would ‘kill a [expletive] ton of people’” because it would be “culling the weak minded.” That evidence was cited to bolster the government’s argument that Teixeira shouldn’t be granted bail.
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