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Who is Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member arrested in Pentagon leak case?
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Apr 13, 2023, 7:27:51 PM4/13/23
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Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. National Guard, was
arrested Thursday in connection with the alleged disclosure of highly
classified military documents on the war in Ukraine.
Teixeira, an airman first class with the Massachusetts Air Force National
Guard's 102nd Intelligence Wing, based on Cape Cod, was taken into custody
by federal agents at his home in Dighton, Mass., about 45 miles south of
Boston and 15 miles east of Providence, R.I.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Teixeira’s arrest in a brief
statement at the Justice Department. Garland said that Teixeira
surrendered “without incident” and would be charged with the unauthorized
removal of classified national defense information. The investigation is
ongoing, Garland added.
Footage from a local television news helicopter showed heavily armed
tactical agents taking Teixeira, who was wearing a T-shirt and shorts,
into custody along a wooded driveway.
The Pentagon and FBI had been scrambling to identify the source of the
leak since Friday, when a trove of U.S. Defense Department slides, many
marked “Secret” or “Top Secret,” were posted to a private chat group on
the Discord platform.
As Yahoo News reported earlier this week, the documents included
“intelligence culled from a host of spy agencies — the CIA, the National
Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National
Reconnaissance Office and more — with a limitless purview reaching all
regions of the globe.”
Speaking to reporters in Dublin earlier Thursday, President Biden said
that the United States was closing in on identifying a suspect.
“There’s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the
intelligence community and the Justice Department,” Biden said. “And
they’re getting close.”
According to the New York Times, which first identified Teixeira as a
suspect, he oversaw the private online group on the Discord site called
Thug Shaker Central, where “about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and
teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes
and video games.”
The newspaper also spoke with Teixeira’s mother, who said he had recently
been working overnight shifts at the base on Cape Cod, and he had recently
changed his phone number.
ABC News reported that Teixeira joined the Air National Guard in September
2019 and that his title is "cyber transport systems journeyman."
Alleged leaker: Jack Douglas Teixeira
Air Force Service record:
Rank: Airman 1st Class (E-3)
Duty Station: Otis Air National Guard Base - Massachusetts Air National
Guard
Duty title: Cyber Transport Systems Journeyman
Date entered the Air National Guard: Sept 26, 2019
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Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. National Guard, was
arrested Thursday in connection with the alleged disclosure of highly
classified military documents on the war in Ukraine.
Teixeira, an airman first class with the Massachusetts Air Force National
Guard's 102nd Intelligence Wing, based on Cape Cod, was taken into custody
by federal agents at his home in Dighton, Mass., about 45 miles south of
Boston and 15 miles east of Providence, R.I.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Teixeira’s arrest in a brief
statement at the Justice Department. Garland said that Teixeira
surrendered “without incident” and would be charged with the unauthorized
removal of classified national defense information. The investigation is
ongoing, Garland added.
Footage from a local television news helicopter showed heavily armed
tactical agents taking Teixeira, who was wearing a T-shirt and shorts,
into custody along a wooded driveway.
The Pentagon and FBI had been scrambling to identify the source of the
leak since Friday, when a trove of U.S. Defense Department slides, many
marked “Secret” or “Top Secret,” were posted to a private chat group on
the Discord platform.
As Yahoo News reported earlier this week, the documents included
“intelligence culled from a host of spy agencies — the CIA, the National
Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National
Reconnaissance Office and more — with a limitless purview reaching all
regions of the globe.”
Speaking to reporters in Dublin earlier Thursday, President Biden said
that the United States was closing in on identifying a suspect.
“There’s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the
intelligence community and the Justice Department,” Biden said. “And
they’re getting close.”
According to the New York Times, which first identified Teixeira as a
suspect, he oversaw the private online group on the Discord site called
Thug Shaker Central, where “about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and
teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes
and video games.”
The newspaper also spoke with Teixeira’s mother, who said he had recently
been working overnight shifts at the base on Cape Cod, and he had recently
changed his phone number.
ABC News reported that Teixeira joined the Air National Guard in September
2019 and that his title is "cyber transport systems journeyman."
Alleged leaker: Jack Douglas Teixeira
Air Force Service record:
Rank: Airman 1st Class (E-3)
Duty Station: Otis Air National Guard Base - Massachusetts Air National
Guard
Duty title: Cyber Transport Systems Journeyman
Date entered the Air National Guard: Sept 26, 2019
Fancy name for a networking tech.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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