Jack Teixeira

Teixeira was born in December 2001.{{cite web |first=Rebecca |last=Falconer |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/jack-teixeira-pentagon-leak-airman-detention-filing |title=Prosecutors call Pentagon leak suspect an ongoing national security risk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428153854/https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/jack-teixeira-pentagon-leak-airman-detention-filing |archive-date=28 April 2023 |url-status=live |work=Axios |date=27 April 2023 |quote=Teixeira, who was born in 2001, ...}}{{Cite web |last=Autran |first=Frédéric |trans-title=Failed patriot, devout Catholic, gun fan... what we know about Jack Teixeira, the prime suspect in the Pentagon leaks |title=Patriote raté, catholique fervent, fan d'armes… ce que l'on sait sur Jack Teixeira, le principal suspect des fuites du Pentagone |url=https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/patriote-rate-catholique-fervent-fan-darmes-ce-que-lon-sait-sur-jack-teixeira-le-principal-suspect-des-fuites-du-pentagone-20230414_PLWCGCHY4RDBZJYFTCLBUK5PTU/ |date=14 April 2023 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=Libération |language=fr |archive-date=4 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504164952/https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/patriote-rate-catholique-fervent-fan-darmes-ce-que-lon-sait-sur-jack-teixeira-le-principal-suspect-des-fuites-du-pentagone-20230414_PLWCGCHY4RDBZJYFTCLBUK5PTU/ |url-status=live }} Teixeira's stepfather is a retired master sergeant in the United States Air Force. His stepfather and stepbrother worked at Joint Base Cape Cod.{{Cite web |url=https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2023/04/13/live-massachusetts-national-guardsman-ukraine-military-leak/70111691007/ |title=MA Air National Guardsman from Dighton stationed on Cape Cod, arrested over military leaks |date=13 April 2023 |last=Coffey |first=Denise |work=Cape Cod Times |access-date=13 April 2023|archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414112626/https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2023/04/13/live-massachusetts-national-guardsman-ukraine-military-leak/70111691007/ |url-status=live }} His mother worked for a non-profit organization that supported military veterans.

Teixeira is of Portuguese descent; his grandfather immigrated to the United States from São Miguel Island, in the Azores.{{cite news | date=13 April 2023 | title=É lusodescendente o líder do grupo online que partilhou documentos confidenciais dos EUA sobre a guerra: Jack Teixeira, novas informações |trans-title=The Leader of the Online Group That Shared Confidential US Documents About the War is of Portuguese Descent: Jack Teixeira, New Information |url=https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/jack-teixeira/acoriano/e-lusodescendente-o-lider-do-grupo-online-que-partilhou-documentos-confidenciais-dos-eua-sobre-a-guerra-jack-teixeira-novas-informacoes/20230413/6438698f0cf2cf9225025a00 |work=CNN Portugal | language=pt | access-date = 13 April 2023|archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414013752/https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/jack-teixeira/acoriano/e-lusodescendente-o-lider-do-grupo-online-que-partilhou-documentos-confidenciais-dos-eua-sobre-a-guerra-jack-teixeira-novas-informacoes/20230413/6438698f0cf2cf9225025a00 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=14 April 2023 |title=Quem é Jack Teixeira, o descendente de portugueses suspeito de vazar documentos sigilosos dos EUA |url=https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2023/04/14/quem-e-jack-teixeira-o-descendente-de-portugueses-suspeito-de-vazar-documentos-sigilosos-dos-eua.ghtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414234922/https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2023/04/14/quem-e-jack-teixeira-o-descendente-de-portugueses-suspeito-de-vazar-documentos-sigilosos-dos-eua.ghtml |archive-date=14 April 2023 |access-date=14 April 2023 |work=G1 }}

He graduated from Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School in 2020, but missed his graduation ceremony to attend United States Air Force Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/europe/jake-teixeira-pentagon-leak.html |title=The Airman Who Wanted to Give Gamers a Real Taste of War |date=13 April 2023 |last1=Toler |first1=Aric |last2=Triebert |first2=Christiaan |last3=Willis |first3=Haley |last4=Browne |first4=Malachy |last5=Schwirtz |first5=Michael |last6=Mellen |first6=Riley | work = The New York Times |access-date=13 April 2023|archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413232119/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/europe/jake-teixeira-pentagon-leak.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |author=Lamothe, Dan |author2=Hill, Evan |author3=Horton, Alex |author4=Ryan, Missy | date = 14 April 2023 | orig-date = 13 April 2023 | title= He's From a Military Family—And Allegedly Leaked U.S. Secrets | newspaper = The Washington Post | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/jack-teixeira-discord-document-leak/ | access-date = 14 April 2023|archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414054943/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/jack-teixeira-discord-document-leak/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65269975|title=Jack Teixeira: National Guard Airman Arrested Over Leaked Pentagon Documents|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=14 April 2023|publisher=BBC News|access-date=14 April 2023|archive-date=13 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413234543/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65269975|url-status=live}}

Upon graduating from high school, Teixeira joined the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as a Cyber Transport Systems journeyman in September 2019.{{cite news |last1=Perez |first1=Evan |last2=Herb |first2=Jeremy |last3=Bertrand |first3=Natasha |author-link3=Natasha Bertrand |last4=Cohen |first4=Zachary |last5=Liptak |first5=Kevin |date=14 April 2023 |title=FBI arrests 21-year-old Air Force guardsman in Pentagon leak case |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/politics/us-government-intel-leak/index.html |url-status=live |language=en |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413163900/https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/politics/us-government-intel-leak/index.html |archive-date=13 April 2023 |access-date=23 June 2023}} Teixeira was stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod.{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/13/jack-teixeira-pentagon-leaks-documents-military/11658107002/ |title=Who leaked the Pentagon documents? What we know about Jack Teixeira, the suspected DOD leaker |date=13 April 2023 |last1=Tran |first1=Ken |last2=Mansfield |first2=Erin |last3=Carless |first3=Will |work=USA Today |access-date=13 April 2023 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414112548/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/13/jack-teixeira-pentagon-leaks-documents-military/11658107002/ |url-status=live }} In July 2022, Teixeira was promoted to airman first class.{{Cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/3949172-what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixera/ |title=What we know about suspected Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira |date=13 April 2023 |last=Dress |first=Brad |work=The Hill |access-date=13 April 2023 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413220221/https://thehill.com/homenews/3949172-what-we-know-about-suspected-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixera/ |url-status=live }} Many U.S. military personnel in technology or intelligence positions, even those of relatively low rank, are entrusted with access to classified information.{{cite web

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}}{{cite news |last1=Merchant |first1=Nomaan |last2=Smith |first2=Michelle R. |title=Leak suspect yearned to join military but then regretted it |url=https://apnews.com/article/jack-teixeira-leaked-national-guard-military-ukraine-e3161fc35a3872ace55a36297a1cae68 |access-date=17 April 2023 |work=Associated Press |date=14 April 2023 |language=en |archive-date=17 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417005540/https://apnews.com/article/jack-teixeira-leaked-national-guard-military-ukraine-e3161fc35a3872ace55a36297a1cae68 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|author=Dave Philipps|title=Transcript: Why Low-Ranking Soldiers Have Access to Top Secret Documents|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/podcasts/the-daily/us-military-leak.html?showTranscript=1|work=The Daily|publisher=The New York Times|date=21 April 2023|access-date=26 April 2023|archive-date=27 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427141003/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/podcasts/the-daily/us-military-leak.html?showTranscript=1|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/13/21-year-old-with-top-secret-information-00092002|author=Lara Seligman|title=A 21-year-old with top secret access? It's not as rare as you think|newspaper=Politico|date=13 April 2023|access-date=26 April 2023|archive-date=26 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426214518/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/13/21-year-old-with-top-secret-information-00092002|url-status=live}} As part of his job, Teixeira held a Top Secret security clearance.{{cite news |last1=Manzhos |first1=Mariya |last2=Barrett |first2=Devlin |last3=Wagner |first3=John |title=Suspect charged in case involving leaked classified military documents |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/jack-teixeira-military-leaks-court-appearance/ |access-date=17 April 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=19 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419050714/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/jack-teixeira-military-leaks-court-appearance/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Toler |first1=Aric |last2=Browne |first2=Malachy |last3=Barnes |first3=Julian E. |date=21 April 2023 |title=Airman Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks-russia-ukraine.html |url-status=live |access-date=22 April 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230422072339/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks-russia-ukraine.html |archive-date=22 April 2023 |url-access=registration }} He was also the recipient of an Air Force Achievement Medal.{{cite magazine |last1=Bergengruen |first1=Vera |last2=Hennigan |first2=W.J. |date=13 April 2023 |title=The Strange Saga of Jack Teixeira Reveals New Security Challenges |url=https://time.com/6271787/jack-teixeira-arrest-leaks/ |url-status=live |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413225429/https://time.com/6271787/jack-teixeira-arrest-leaks/ |archive-date=13 April 2023 |access-date=13 April 2023}}

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In early April 2023, Teixeira was alleged by media to have regularly shared classified information in a server on the online chat service Discord called "Thug Shaker Central",{{Cite news |title=Leak of military secrets on Discord marks a new step for social media |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/discord-documents-oxide-wow-mao/ |url-status=live |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413102718/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/discord-documents-oxide-wow-mao/ |archive-date=13 April 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Oakford |first2=Samuel |last3=Barrett |first3=Devlin |last4=Stein |first4=Perry |date=13 April 2023 |title=Suspected leaker of top-secret Pentagon documents arrested |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/suspect-pentagon-documents-leak/ |url-status=live |access-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413165553/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/suspect-pentagon-documents-leak/ |archive-date=13 April 2023 |issn=0190-8286}} beginning at least by October 2022, both transcribed from documents he read and from printouts removed from his office on base.{{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/ |title=Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group |date=12 April 2023 |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Oakford |first2=Samuel |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 April 2023 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413031127/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Barrett |first2=Devlin |last3=Nakashima |first3=Ellen |date=14 April 2023 |title=Leak raises fresh questions about Pentagon's internal security |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/pentagon-leaked-documents/ |access-date=15 April 2023}} Chatroom members reportedly talked about and played video games together;{{Cite web |last=Carpenter |first=Nicole |date=14 April 2023 |title=Why Discord is at the heart of a major US intelligence leak |url=https://www.polygon.com/23683683/discord-classified-documents-leak-thug-shaker-central-jack-teixeira |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414210223/https://www.polygon.com/23683683/discord-classified-documents-leak-thug-shaker-central-jack-teixeira |archive-date=14 April 2023 |access-date=14 April 2023 |work=Polygon}} according to The New York Times, Teixeira was identified as the chatroom administrator. Reports of the server's size vary, between about two dozen and about fifty members.

On 28 February 2023, a Thug Shaker Central member was alleged to have posted dozens of pictures of classified documents to another Discord server.{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Oakford |first2=Samuel |last3=Barrett |first3=Devlin |title=FBI leak investigators home in on members of private Discord server |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/21/discord-leak-fbi-investigation/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=21 April 2023 |archive-date=23 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423011224/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/21/discord-leak-fbi-investigation/ |url-status=live }} From there, someone else alleges they posted images found on that server to a Discord server associated with the video game Minecraft. After classified documents began appearing on Russian-language Telegram channels, The New York Times first reported on the leak.{{cite news |last1=Willis |first1=Haley |last2=Gibbons-Neff |first2=Thomas |last3=Toler |first3=Aric |last4=Triebert |first4=Christiaan |last5=Barnes |first5=Julian E. |last6=Browne |first6=Malachy |title=F.B.I. Arrests National Guardsman in Leak of Classified Documents |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=13 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413222920/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html |url-status=live }} On 21 April, The New York Times reported that a Discord account with similar characteristics as the online profile of Teixeira had shared written summaries of classified information and likely shared photographs of documents to a Discord server with about 600 members from about February 2022 until about March 2023.

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On the morning of 13 April 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Teixeira at his home in Dighton, where Teixeira lived with his mother and stepfather. Next to his bed, investigators found Teixeira's stockpile of weapons, including handguns, shotguns, bolt-action rifles, an AK-style rifle with high-capacity magazine, a gas mask, and other weapons.

The next day, Teixeira made his first appearance at the U.S. District Court in Boston before a U.S. magistrate judge, and the formal charging document was unsealed.{{Cite web|author1=John R. Ellement |author2=Shelley Murphy |author3=Travis Andersen |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/14/metro/jack-teixeira-due-in-court-in-boston-friday/|title=Guardsman charged with violation of Espionage Act in federal court|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=14 April 2023|access-date=15 April 2023|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415030731/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/14/metro/jack-teixeira-due-in-court-in-boston-friday/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|author=Saraya Wintersmith|date=14 April 2023|url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/04/14/accused-leaker-of-secret-documents-makes-first-federal-court-appearance-in-boston|publisher=WGBH|title=Accused leaker of secret documents makes first federal court appearance in Boston|access-date=15 April 2023|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415030732/https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/04/14/accused-leaker-of-secret-documents-makes-first-federal-court-appearance-in-boston|url-status=live}} He was charged with two offenses: (1) violating the Espionage Act of 1917 by retaining and transmitting national defense information without authorization and (2) unauthorized removal and retention of classified information. The first charge has a maximum prison sentence of ten years; the second charge, a maximum of five years.{{cite news |last1=Gozzi |first1=Laura |last2=Debusmann |first2=Bernd |title=US leak: What punishment could Jack Teixeira face? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65273543 |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=BBC News |date=14 April 2023 |archive-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421164032/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65273543 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Petrishen |first1=Brad |title=Accused military leaker Jack Teixeira to face detention hearing in Worcester Thursday |url=https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2023/04/22/accused-military-leaker-jack-teixeira-to-face-detention-hearing-in-worcester-thursday/70142262007/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=The Worcester Telegram & Gazette |date=22 April 2023 |archive-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422231244/https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2023/04/22/accused-military-leaker-jack-teixeira-to-face-detention-hearing-in-worcester-thursday/70142262007/ |url-status=live }} A supporting affidavit from a FBI Counterintelligence Division special agent was attached to the criminal complaint.{{Cite news |last1=Helmore |first1=Edward |last2=Borger |first2=Julian |date=14 April 2023 |title=Jack Teixeira, suspect in Pentagon leaks, charged under Espionage Act |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/14/jack-teixeira-charged-pentagon-leaks-espionage-act |issn= |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415022753/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/14/jack-teixeira-charged-pentagon-leaks-espionage-act |url-status=live }}

Teixeira is represented by counsel from the federal public defender's office,{{cite web |first=John R. |last=Ellement |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/24/metro/jack-teixeira-due-in-worcester-court-on-thursday/ |title=Detention hearing for Teixeira set for Thursday in Worcester |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424171515/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/24/metro/jack-teixeira-due-in-worcester-court-on-thursday/ |archive-date=24 April 2023 |url-status=live |work=Boston Globe |date=24 April 2023 }} who requested and received postponement of Teixeira's detention hearing to allow more time to review the case.{{cite news |last1=Gurman |first1=Sadie |last2=Youssef |first2=Nancy A. |date=19 April 2023 |title=Airman Jack Teixeira's Detention Hearing Postponed |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/airman-jack-teixeira-set-to-appear-in-court-for-detention-hearing-eb567dcb |url-status=live |work=The Wall Street Journal |archive-url=https://archive.today/lbHMk |archive-date=19 April 2023 |access-date=19 April 2023 |url-access=subscription}} In advance of a 27 April detention hearing, the prosecution and defense filed memos with the court. The prosecution advocated ongoing detention without bond, arguing that Teixeira posed a "serious flight risk"; the prosecution's memo alleged Teixeira had attempted to obstruct the federal investigation by destroying evidence; might still possess secret information of "tremendous value to hostile nation states"; and had a record of making racist and violent comments, including in late 2022 and early 2023.{{Cite news|author=Zachary Cohen & Hannah Rabinowitz|url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/politics/jack-teixeira-detention-hearing/index.html|title=Prosecutors say leaks suspect has history of making violent threats and possessed an 'arsenal of weapons'|publisher=CNN|date=27 April 2023|access-date=28 April 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428152102/https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/politics/jack-teixeira-detention-hearing/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Richer |first1=Alanna Durkin |last2=Tucker |first2=Eric |last3=Copp |first3=Tara |title=Guardsman in leaked docs case talked of violence, may still possess secrets, feds say |url=https://apnews.com/article/leaked-documents-air-national-guardsman-jack-teixeira-d7c8dbaeb3b7a5ae69faeab04ede2ab0 |access-date=27 April 2023 |work=Associated Press |date=27 April 2023 |language=en |archive-date=27 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427115920/https://apnews.com/article/leaked-documents-air-national-guardsman-jack-teixeira-d7c8dbaeb3b7a5ae69faeab04ede2ab0 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Ables |first1=Kelsey |title=Discord leaks suspect discussed mass violence, had 'arsenal,' prosecutors say |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/27/jack-teixeira-discord-leak-documents-guns/ |access-date=27 April 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=27 April 2023}}

To support detention without bond, prosecutors also raised an incident from while Teixeira was a high school sophomore in 2018 that resulted in his suspension from school and prevented him from obtaining a gun license until he joined the National Guard.{{Cite news|author=Glenn Thrush|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks.html|newspaper=New York Times|title=Airman Accused of Leak Has History of Racist and Violent Remarks, Filing Says|date=27 April 2023|access-date=28 April 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428152059/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/denied-a-gun-license-over-school-threat-accused-leaker-jack-teixeira-later-got-top-secret-clearance-1b0cd54|title=Denied a Gun License Over School Threat, Accused Leaker Jack Teixeira Later Got Top-Secret Clearance|author1=Nancy A. Youssef|author2=Sadie Gurman|date=27 April 2023|access-date=28 April 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428152059/https://www.wsj.com/articles/denied-a-gun-license-over-school-threat-accused-leaker-jack-teixeira-later-got-top-secret-clearance-1b0cd54|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/metro/jack-d-teixeira-leaks-classified-documents/|author=Mike Damiano|title=Guns and threats of violence: A darker picture emerges of accused leaker Jack Teixeira|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=27 April 2023|access-date=8 September 2023|archive-date=28 April 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230428013909/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/metro/jack-d-teixeira-leaks-classified-documents/|url-status=live }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/metro/jack-teixeira-gun-application-letter/ |first=Travis |last=Andersen |title=After police denied Jack Teixeira's gun license application twice, he wrote a letter touting his security clearance |newspaper=Boston Globe|date=27 April 2023|access-date=8 September 2023|archive-date= 27 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427212538/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/27/metro/jack-teixeira-gun-application-letter/ |url-status=live }} Prosecutors also alleged that Teixeira's supervisors had in September and October 2022 and January 2023 caught him taking notes on classified material or viewing material not needed for his job, and admonished him to "cease and desist".{{cite news |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/17/government-leak-teixeira-caught-accessing-documents |title=Mass. airman accused in leak case was previously caught accessing classified documents, feds say |date=17 May 2023 |author=Ally Jarmanning |publisher=WBUR |access-date=18 May 2023 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518194201/https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/17/government-leak-teixeira-caught-accessing-documents |url-status=live }} At a 19 May hearing, a judge ruled Teixeira would be held without bail until trial.{{cite news |last1=Rabinowitz |first1=Hannah |title=Pentagon leaks suspect to remain detained as he awaits trial |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/politics/jack-teixeira-detention-hearing/index.html |access-date=27 May 2023 |work=CNN |date=19 May 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526235956/https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/politics/jack-teixeira-detention-hearing/index.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/19/metro/jack-teixeira-guardsman-accused-of-leaking-top-secret-information-due-in-court/ |title=Jack Teixeira, Air National Guardsman accused of leaking secrets, will remain in custody awaiting trial, judge rules |author1=Shelley Murphy |author2=Nick Stoico |date=19 May 2023 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=20 May 2023 |archive-date=20 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520190805/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/19/metro/jack-teixeira-guardsman-accused-of-leaking-top-secret-information-due-in-court/ |url-status=live }} On 15 June, Teixeira was indicted,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/politics/jack-teixeira-indicted-document-leaks.html |title=Airman Is Indicted on Charges of Mishandling Secrets |date=15 June 2023 |last=Thrush |first=Glenn |work=The New York Times |access-date=15 June 2023 |archive-date=23 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823155408/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/politics/jack-teixeira-indicted-document-leaks.html |url-status=live }} and he pleaded not guilty in court on 21 June.{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/21/metro/jack-teixeira-air-national-guardsman-pleads-not-guilty-six-federal-charges/ |title=Jack Teixeira, Air National Guardsman, pleads not guilty to six federal charges |newspaper=The Boston Globe |author=Shelley Murphy |date=21 June 2023 |access-date=24 June 2023 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918204532/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/21/metro/jack-teixeira-air-national-guardsman-pleads-not-guilty-six-federal-charges/ |url-status=live }}

On 4 March 2024, Teixeira pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/04/jack-teixeira-guilty-plea-discord/|title=Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking intelligence documents on Discord |date=4 March 2024 |last1=Harris |first1=Shane |last2=Oakford |first2=Samuel |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240304161237/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/04/jack-teixeira-guilty-plea-discord/ |archive-date=4 March 2024 |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 March 2024}} On 12 November 2024, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.{{cite web|url-status=live|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/air-national-guardsman-pleads-guilty-unlawfully-disclosing-classified-national-defense|title=Air National Guardsman Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Disclosing Classified National Defense Information|date=4 March 2024|website=United States Department of Justice|publisher=U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240305133654/https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/air-national-guardsman-pleads-guilty-unlawfully-disclosing-classified-national-defense|archive-date=5 March 2024|access-date=5 March 2024}}{{Cite news |last=Raymond |first=Nate |date=12 November 2024 |title=Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in US prison |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-leaker-teixeira-faces-sentencing-us-seeks-17-year-prison-term-2024-11-12/ |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Reuters}} In March 2025, he pleaded guilty to military charges of obstructing justice, and was dishonorably discharged.

Texeira is Catholic.{{Cite news |last1=Borger |first1=Julian |last2=Ganguly |first2=Manisha |date=2023-04-15 |title=Too many with access, too little vetting. Pentagon leaks were 'a matter of time' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/15/pentagon-leaks-matter-of-time-jack-teixeira-9-11 |access-date=2025-02-08 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}{{Cite web |date=2023-04-14 |title=US national guardsman charged with 'unauthorized transmission' of classified documents |url=https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230414-us-national-guardsman-charged-with-unauthorized-transmission-of-classified-docs |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=France 24 |language=en}}

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