and techniques to get them over the line. jack is a 21 year old airman from massachusetts and currently facing 15 years jail. he has been charged with leaking classified documents thatis leaking classified documents that is alleged to have posted on the online chat form discord this year. the documents reveal secrets about ukraine and american allies. the documents revealed us assessments of the war in ukraine as well as sensitive secrets about american allies. when the fbi finally arrested teixeira on the 13th of april, the new york times and other journalists had already identified him as a suspect. how they did it is a fascinating story in itself. and two of them are here now. one of them, haley willis, works in the visualjournalism team at the new york times. haley, welcome. now, you were outside his home as the fbi turned up. talk us through what happened. yes, that s right. thank you for having me, katie. so we identified jack teixeira through some digital sleuthing, wh
more, on wednesday night, very late wednesday night. ijumped in a car at aam thursday morning and drove up to massachusetts. and we didn t yet know 100% if he was the source of the leaks. but we certainly knew that he was very likely to be, given some visual evidence, and we definitely knew that he was in this group where the leaks happened, and so we definitely wanted to get the chance to speak to him, speak to his parents, to give them a chance to respond to this. and when we arrived at his house, it was pretty clear that the fbi was already there surveilling. there were cars kind of driving back and forth along the street, but we were the first ones there to actually approach the house. we spoke with his mother. she didn t share too much information with us, but did confirm his military service. later on, we actually saw jack himself drive onto the property. we approached again to speak with his mother and his stepfather, who essentially told us, you know, we don t have our own evid