U.S. authorities arrested Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, in connection to the leak of highly classified Pentagon documents. Here's what we know about the arrest and what lies ahead for Teixeira.
Teixeira, currently the prime suspect in the case, came from a military family and was mobilized for federal active duty last fall, theHe was stationed at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts and was detailed to an Air Force intelligence unit, according toHis work meant he had a higher level of security clearance in order to access the military communications networks, a defense official told AP, helping explain how he had access to the classified documents.
Teixeira had been under surveillance for several days prior to his arrest, which took place outside his mother's house,A man known as "OG" initially began sharing the documents with roughly two dozen acquaintances — mostly men and boys — in a private chat room called "Thug Shaker Central" on the gamer-friendly
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