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National defense secrets. there are very serious penalties associated with that. we intend to send that message on how important it is to our national security. any comment about your son? reporter: jack teixeira s father leaving court after calling out to his son, i love you, jack. teixeira replying i love you too dad after he was led from the room in handcuffs. teixeira comes from a family with strong military ties. his mother volunteered with the veterans group. his stepfather retired after 834 year career with the same unit teixeira serves, the 102nd intelligence wing at joint base cape cod. his senior year quote in his high school yearbook, actions speak louder than words. online, teixeira was leading a group of about two dozen mostly young men and team boys on the discussion forum discord. members of the group tell the washington post teixeira was known as og. he boasted of access to classified material, they said,
Area. world news with david near is next. see you back here for news at 4:00. tonight, the suspect accused of leaking highly classified american secrets now charged under the espionage act. massachusetts air national guard men jack teixeira in court today. court records unsealed revealing how the fbi says they tracked him down after news of the leak went public. authorities accusing him of accessing top-secret materials, sneaking some of them home and photographing them and sharing those documents with his invite only social media chat groups. when stories began surfacing in the news, the one keyword he allegedly searched on his office computer, his message to his father in court. aaron katersky in boston and martha raddatz in washington. the supreme court issuing a last-minute stay in the legal battle over the abortion pill.
And posted the secrets for them to see. he was a very smart man. there is no way he would not know that he knew these were illegal. reporter: someone spread those post barbie on the small chat group and they made their way around the world. to share held top-secret security clearance. federal prosecutors say he improperly and unlawfully retained and transmitted national defense information to people not authorized to receive it causing serious damage to the national security of the united states. court record said teixeira began posting classified information on discord in december. first as paragraphs of text, then when he allegedly became concerned he could be discovered copping material at work, he began taking the documents to his residence and photographing them. prosecutors suggested his fears of getting caught may have deepened last week on the very day report started circulating about the intelligence documents the fbi said teixeira started searching on his office computer
Distribution of this sensitive information. reporter: exactly, wit. we heard the pentagon spokesman say just yesterday that there are stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding classified material but that clearly did not work in this situation. jack teixeira had a top-secret clearance at such a young age because he worked as an it specialist so he would need access to classified computers to make sure they were working properly. but there would be no reason for him to print or copy information for himself about ongoing intelligence operations. and yet if the charges against him are true, that was occurring on a regular basis and no one caught it. in fact, the pentagon did not realize the leaks were even happening until months later and that was only because of the report in the new york times. whit? alarming details. thank you martha raddatz. fast-moving development in the battle over the abortion pill. late today the supreme court