There's no indication the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking hundreds of classified military documents was doing so to blow the whistle on any specific Pentagon behavior.
Airman 1st Class Jack Douglas Teixeira was charged on Friday with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material, according to court documents. He had been leaking classified information since December, according to the charging affidavit.
SUSPECT FIRST LEAKED TEXT OF CLASSIFIED DOCS AROUND DECEMBER, AFFIDAVIT SAYS
Teixeira was allegedly releasing the information in a chatroom on the Discord platform in a group, Thug Shaker Central, of about 20-30 young men who shared similar interests. He had been transcribing classified documents, though when he began worrying about possibly getting caught, he started printing the documents and photographing them from his home.
Teixeira, whom members of the group called O.G., was the unofficial leader who wanted to teach the others within the group about war, so he began sharing descriptions of classified information, according to the New York Times. He wanted to inform and impress them, members of the group told the outlet. A member of the group said the documents weren’t meant to be shared outside of the group, but they were disseminated by members on other platforms, which is where others began finding them.
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