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BumRushDaShow

(143,480 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 08:30 AM Nov 12

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to be sentenced for violating Espionage Act

Source: CBS News

November 12, 2024 / 6:00 AM EST


Former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who admitted he illegally posted sensitive military information to online chat rooms in what prosecutors called one of the "most prolific" and "rare" government leak operations, is set to be sentenced in a Boston courtroom on Tuesday.

Teixeira, a 22-year-old Massachusetts native, pleaded guilty in March to six counts of violating the Espionage Act, acknowledging he was behind the yearlong distribution of dozens of classified government documents — including some marked "top secret" — on Discord, a social media platform. The classified documents involved in the leak touched on a number of sensitive issues, but the most notable were about Russia's war in Ukraine, detailed troop movements and timelines for Western weapons deliveries to the war-torn country, investigators said.

Federal law enforcement arrested Teixeira at his family's Massachusetts home after a weekslong probe into how sensitive Pentagon records were ending up online.

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to sentence the defendant to 200 months in prison — almost 17 years — for his central role in "one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history," one that has prompted reforms in the handling of classified information. "The harm the defendant caused to the national security from his disclosures of national defense information is extraordinary," prosecutors wrote in an October court filing.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-sentencing/

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Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to be sentenced for violating Espionage Act (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 12 OP
Why bother? no_hypocrisy Nov 12 #1
He should have run for President. GreenWave Nov 12 #2
Before reading the article I knew it would be a young person! Hope22 Nov 12 #3
This case has been going for awhile BumRushDaShow Nov 12 #5
He deserves the same sentence Trump got. I don't give a single fuck. Autumn Nov 12 #4
Rather hypocritical, don't you think? Firestorm49 Nov 12 #6
Different case different facts. Texeira was charged with retention and transmission of national security documents. onenote Nov 12 #10
And trump skates... Chipper Chat Nov 12 #7
45 months and counting republianmushroom Nov 12 #8
Amazing how quickly the justice system moves when you don't have a lot of money. Ray Bruns Nov 12 #9

GreenWave

(9,325 posts)
2. He should have run for President.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 08:36 AM
Nov 12

Maybe they would let him walk. "If the President thinks about declassifying them and I intercept his thought wave..."

Hope22

(3,042 posts)
3. Before reading the article I knew it would be a young person!
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 08:43 AM
Nov 12

Every time something like this goes down I think of the bathroom full of documents and zero justice for the American people.

onenote

(44,772 posts)
10. Different case different facts. Texeira was charged with retention and transmission of national security documents.
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 02:26 PM
Nov 12

Trump was charged with retention only. And Texeira entered a guilty plea.

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