With a culprit identified, the disclosure of classified documents by a low-level airman is an embarrassment for US authorities, who are now in damage control.
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member was arrested Thursday in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues, a breach that has raised fresh questions about America s ability to safeguard its most sensitive secrets.
Jack Teixeira was a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He is accused of leaking classified military documents in an online Discord group.
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, the suspect accused of leaking classified US intelligence, made a frantic final call to his gamer friends as the FBI closed in on him professing he "never wanted it to get like this."