Arguing he should remain in jail, prosecutors say the Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified military documents poses a grave threat to national security.
The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified US military documents kept an arsenal of guns and said on social media that he would like to kill a "ton of people," prosecutors said in arguing he should remain jail for his trial.
They said he may still have material that hasn't been released, which could be of "tremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbour and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States". "You have a young man before you who didn't flee, has nowhere to flee," said Brendan Kelley, the defendant's lawyer.Weapons can be seen in this image of Jack Teixeira's room at his mother's house.
Court papers urging a federal judge to keep Mr Teixeira in custody detailed a troubling history going back to high school, where he was suspended when a classmate overheard him discussing Molotov cocktails and other weapons as well as racial threats.
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