FBI agents arrest a young National Guardsman suspected of leaking sensitive US government secrets about the war in Ukraine.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the arrest was made ‘in connection with an investigation into the alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transfer of classified national defense information’.
Speaking at a news briefing, Merrick Garland identified the suspect as Jack Teixeira, previously identified by US media as a 21-year-old airman, and the apparent leader of an online chat room where the document first appeared. It came out.
The attorney general confirmed that Jack Teixeira is an employee of the US Air Force National Guard, and said FBI agents took him into custody ‘without incident’.
News helicopter footage showed the suspect, in red shorts with his hands tied behind his back, being escorted by heavily armed agents into an unmarked sport utility vehicle in a wooded area of North Dighton in northeastern Massachusetts. I kept
Jack Teixeira will be initially arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
The US media began to give importance to Jack Teixeira when the Washington Post reported that hundreds of pages of documents had been posted on the social media platform Discord by a man who worked at a US military base.
According to the New York Times, a ‘string of digital evidence’ pointed to Jake Teixeira as the leader of a private chat group on Discord, called Thugshaker Central, where the documents surfaced.
Reports said the alleged leaker, known as ‘OG’, had been regularly posting documents to the chat group in question for several months.
The group consists of 24 people, some from Russia and Ukraine, who came together over their ‘love of guns, military equipment and God’ to form an ‘invite-only’ clubhouse on Discord in 2020. gave
The Washington Post reported that OG told members of the group that he “spent part of his day inside a secure facility where the use of cell phones and other electronic devices was prohibited.”
He first wrote down the contents of classified documents to share with the group, but later began taking photos, telling other members not to share them, the newspaper reported.
OG had a dark view of government, speaking of ‘America, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence community, as a terrifying force bent on suppressing its citizens and keeping them in the dark. was trying to
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2024-08-23 12:05:13
