hope that is the outcome. thank you so much, chancellor thanks for being with us that does it for us today, and make sure you watch inside with jen psaki on msnbc. chris jansing is here right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now the demand for answers as jack teixeira, the national guardsman accused of leaking hundreds of highly classified documents makes his first court appearance what we know about the 21-year-old behind one of the biggest u.s. intelligence leaks in a decade. how he got access to his top secret material and the charges he now faces plus, an inside look at the gaming platforms where those government secrets went undetected by u.s. officials for months, and what an anonymous member of the group is saying about him. the chat room s leader he was not hostile to the u.s. government. he had disagreed with several occasions such as waco and ruby ridge and thought the government is overreaching in sever
and you can save up to five weeings per year if you re not invited to parties at all. kill me. always good for a punchline that kill me. noun to the news. now to the news. he s got a baby face and leaked it all over the place, and the penalty could be severe for a man barely ole enough buy a beer. i speak, is there a picture coming up? there you go. i speak of 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman, jack tixeira who made his first appearance in federal court today. looking that young, joe biden might deem him sniffable. the fbi busted jack the dripper yesterday over a leak of classify documents that reportedly attempted to undermine american efforts to
faces two federal charges after sharing classified information in a kiss cord chat room discord chat room where he went by the user name jack the dripper. rachel: what comes next for him? here to weigh in, former navy jag officer don brown. don, welcome. good morning. rachel: so what can we expect to the happen to this young man? well, this young man s been charged with three separate counts under the espionage act, two basically for mishandling national defense information that is classified, then a third for generally mishandling classified information in section 1924. so there are two charges but three counts. based on my calculations having read the indictment last night, it looks like he s facing a maximum of 25 years, 10 years for each of the counts relating to mishandlingover disseminating national defense information.
visiting all of these different if you will links that exist within our intelligence classified network, watching the raising some red flags and supposedly, that was something that was fixed the last time that we ran into some of these issues, edward snowden. obviously the wikileaks was another example of contractors of part time staff that out. you know, poking their nose, perhaps where it shouldn t belong. so in other words he had in his profile. at least one of the sites. he was named jack the dripper, which right there, says drip, you know, revealing information, and that s interesting. that was in his kind of handle name, and you re saying that because of the kind of job he had, there should be someone or an entity that should be watching his behavior. so when he would go to sites like this um, there should have been someone to identify his identity . his name is profile and that it is he that is at this locations at this location or
arrested jack douglas teixeira alleged retention of classified national defense information. teixeira is an employee much the united states air force national guard. we will share more information at the appropriate time flns to arrest were accelerated. chat room discord. that chat was titled thug shaker central where teixeira sported the user name jack the dripper accord tog the daily mail. drip is a young people people use to swag and the kind of swag that he allegedly came by way of teixeira was sharing for months it was top secret u.s. surveillance capabilities mainly regarding russia and ukraine war but also included intelligence related to i china and allies too. when theest these came to light that was spread more widely into other platforms by some of the users. that s how authorities found out about this. president biden down played the