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Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison
Just the News ^ | 11/12/24 | Misty Severi

Posted on 11/12/2024 4:53:45 PM PST by CFW

A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison after he admitted to posting classified military information online.

Teixeira, who was 21 when he was arrested in April 2023, pleaded guilty to six charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act in March. Prosecutors have argued the case is "one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history."

The former national guardsman reportedly uploaded hundreds of pages of sensitive military intelligence, including an assessment of the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, to the Discord group "Thug Shaker Central." The postings went unnoticed for months, but he was eventually warned by his superiors about his handling of classified documents.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/12/2024 4:53:45 PM PST by CFW
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2 posted on 11/12/2024 4:55:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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An Air Force Inspector General report also found that people in Teixeria’s unit failed to take adequate action following at least four separate security incidents, and “enabled” the leaks by not monitoring his access to classified information.


nobody said nothing.


3 posted on 11/12/2024 4:59:36 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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You posted on the internet on Discord hundreds of documents over a period of a year,” Judge Indira Talwani told Teixeria on Tuesday, CBS News reported. “I don’t find any ambiguity here as to what you were doing being wrong.”


this went on for a year......................


4 posted on 11/12/2024 5:00:50 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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" The postings went unnoticed for months,..."

Hmmm...

OTOH, if he had used an incorrect pronoun for someone, he would have been in the slammer instantly...

The nancy boys running the Pentagon are always on their toes..

5 posted on 11/12/2024 5:02:19 PM PST by SuperLuminal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Teixeira

After classified documents began appearing on Russian-language Telegram channels, The New York Times first reported on the leak.[4] 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.[20]


New York Times? that is interesting.


6 posted on 11/12/2024 5:03:36 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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If he showed up in court in drag they would have dismissed the case.


7 posted on 11/12/2024 5:04:46 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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If this will get you 15 years, how many years should hildabeast get for her private server?

How many years should brandon get for his garage document storage


8 posted on 11/12/2024 7:01:59 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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