Twenty-one year-old Jack Teixeira arrested in Massachusetts on Thursday for allegedly leaking ‘classified national defence information’
It is the biggest U.S. intelligence leak in decades.
Dramatic video showing the FBI arresting 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in Massachusetts.
He is accused of stealing the nation’s most sensitive secrets including highly-classified documents on war in Ukraine and details about our allies and enemies.
Officials say it was all to impress a bunch of his teenage friends in a video game chat room.
The Washington Post, interviewing one of the members saying that Teixeira acted like a father figure to the group during Covid.
The Biden Administration appears to have been caught flat footed by this major leak.
According to authorities, Teixeira was an I.T. worker with highest level of security clearance and access to military Intel systems.
He had been circulating information for months online. But the Pentagon only learning about it last week through the media.
The DOD has been dodging how damaging this could be.
President Biden downplaying the significance of the leak just hours before the arrest.
Following the intelligence leak, American leaders and diplomats continue to do damage control and reassure allies of the United States’ commitments.
