Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira accepts 16-year jail sentence after admitting he released secret docs
March 4, 2024
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as posted by the channelBaby-faced Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira copped a plea deal Monday that could land him more than 16 years behind bars for committing one of the most serious national security breaches in years.
The former Massachusetts Air National guardsman, 22, entered federal court in Boston, Mass., shackled and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and nodded to his family before the proceeding, according to a Washington Post reporter on X.
Teixiera then pleaded guilty to all six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information against him — charges that could have slapped him with up to 60 years in prison.
He was arrested in April for allegedly abusing his security clearance to post top-secret Pentagon documents on the gaming app Discord, according to court documents reviewed by The New York Post.
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