attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine s air defenses and w
can do to ukraine, our efforts there, all that s out there, when you have people in the spy craft world, how they may not trust the united states as much. but the big question is also how this 21-year-old national guardsman, air national guardsman, jack teixeira was able to get his hands on this kind of information. the one thing i was somewhat comforted by is he does work in the cyber security area. we ve gotten a look at his actual papers and what he is described as is a cyber transport systems journeyman now, specifically we don t know exactly what that means, but at least he s got something to do with this arena. the question is how is it that he would think it was okay to do this how is it that he would be able to get through what you would assume would be multiple layers of security to access this kind of secretive information yeah, you know, the first question is hard to answer
civilian law enforcement and not in the military. if in fact, he will most likely given criminal charges, he will most likely be separated from the military i suspect they re going to handle this in a civilian justice system. ken, you concur with that absolutely. and i think this is very clearly an espionage act case. when you use the term espionage, people think of spying for a foreign government but that law covers unauthorized disclosure of national defense information. and it carries very stiff penal penalties. i was about to google what they are, it carries life in prison, it s the most powerful tool the government has in its arsenal for people who leak classified information. this person who was arrested is facing a tough legal road ahead. you have to wonder what they were thinking, when jack teixeira, because when you look at the content of the documents that were released, to what extent do you have the details on that in addition to what i m
attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira the new york times spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american