Jack Teixeira’s hearing postponed in classified document leak case
online will remain locked up for at least another two weeks after his detention hearing was postponed Wednesday.
The judge, however, canceled the hearing at the last minute after Teixeira’s lawyer filed a motion requesting a two-week delay to give the airman’s defense more time to prepare.Teixeira, who hasn’t yet entered a plea, was arrested by heavily armed tactical agents at his mother’s North Dighton, Mass., home April 13 and charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention and transmission of classified defense information.
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, is charged with leaking classified US documents online.The secret materials — including details about the Ukraine war and intelligence gathered about US allies — then spread like wildfire after being shared on other social media platforms, prosecutors allege.on his government-issued computer on the same day the breach was first reported by the New York Times.
An unidentified user told the feds that a Discord username linked to Teixeira had been posting what appeared to be classified information since at least December of last year, the court papers say.
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