mission control. a 21 year old us air national guardsman will appear in court later today charged with the most serious leak of secret intelligence documents in years. jack teixeira is expected in court in boston in the next few hours. the leaked material first appeared on an online chat forum, and has exposed details of ukraine s war plans. it also reveals the extent of the us s spying on its allies. here s what we know about jack teixeira. the 21 year old is a us air national guardsman. he was listed as a member of the intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national guard based at otis air national guard base in western cape cod. according to his service record, which was obtained by our us partner cbs news, teixeira joined the force in 2019. his identification first came on thursday when the visual investigations team at the new york times tracked him down. it s an extraordianary story. christiaan triebert from that team told the bbc how they managed it. these new
Of Us National Security intelligence in many years. Narrator a special investigation with the Washington Post. the 22yearold pleaded guilty to charges. Jack teixeira could face sixteen years for releasing secret military documents online. Talking to jacks friends the internet was a huge part of his life. Hes working in this highly sensitive facility, safeguarding the nations secrets, and then he goes hops onto discord and its a racist, paranoid, antisemitic, free for all. Its like hes living this double life. Narrator the chat platform. This was a problematic pocket on our service. We dont want these people on discord. Narrator and the National Security failures. Should the military vetting process have caught all of these aspects of his personality . The vetting system is pretty robust, but its not perfect. There were countless missed opportunities, and as a result, we have one of the worst leak cases in modern times. Narrator now on frontline, the discord leaks. Frontline is made pos
Of Us National Security intelligence in many years. Narrator a special investigation with the Washington Post. the 22yearold pleaded guilty to charges. Jack teixeira could face sixteen years for releasing secret military documents online. Talking to jacks friends the internet was a huge part of his life. Hes working in this highly sensitive facility, safeguarding the nations secrets, and then he goes hops onto discord and its a racist, paranoid, antisemitic, free for all. Its like hes living this double life. Narrator the chat platform. This was a problematic pocket on our service. We dont want these people on discord. Narrator and the National Security failures. Should the military vetting process have caught all of these aspects of his personality . The vetting system is pretty robust, but its not perfect. There were countless missed opportunities, and as a result, we have one of the worst leak cases in modern times. Narrator now on frontline, the discord leaks. Frontline is made pos