Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, accused of leaking classified military plans online, was held without right to bail after a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Worcester.
102nd intelligence operations wing out of massachusetts, and that produces intelligence for senior commanders around the world and to share his job was called a cyber defense operations. journeyman essentially, i t support for this highly classified network that he worked on and you can t be a normal it. guy. and service that network so you have to have a high level clearance. now federal agents are certainly looking into what to share access how he accessed it, whether he printed the documents out himself and how he got them out. and there will be much bigger questions now about who can access. what kind of intelligence going forward alex marquardt, cnn washington. and more details now on to share at this hour. the 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman remains in custody. he s charged under the espionage act with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information and
understand there were hundreds of them were online for months before they really came to light on april 6th. that is the day that the secretary of defense lloyd austin, got his first briefing. and that was just one week before to share a was arrested. at his parents house just south of boston. so why did to share a have access with such a low rank in the military? well he worked for the 102nd intelligence operations wing out of massachusetts, and that produces intelligence for senior commanders around the world and to share his job was called a cyber defense operations. journeyman, essentially i t support for this highly classified network that he worked on and you can t be a normal guy and service that network so you have to have a high level clearance. now, federal agents are certainly looking into what to share access how he accessed it, whether he printed the documents out himself and how he got them out. and there will be much
first briefing, and it was just one week before to share. it was then arrested at his parents house south of boston. so why did to share a have access? to these documents with such a low military rank. well he worked in the 102nd intelligence operations wing that is a military unit that produces intelligence for senior military commanders all around the world and to share his job was called a cyber defense operations. journeyman essentially, that means he was support for this highly classified network that he worked on and you can t be a normal it guy in service this network so he had to have a high level clearance. now, federal agents are certainly looking into what he accessed how he accessed it. we know that they ve looked on his computer already questions about whether he printed out these documents himself and how he got them out, and there will be much bigger questions going forward about who can access what kind of intelligence in the military and intelligence community. jim.