The decision about Teixeira, who was detained in April 2023 and accepted the charges against him in March of this year, has been announced.
In his statement before the hearing, Teixeira said, “I apologize for all the harm I caused. I know that I have full responsibility and I accept the consequences.” he said.
Massachusetts District Judge Indira Talwani announced that 22-year-old Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking documents containing secret information about the army.
In March, Teixeira agreed with prosecutors and admitted that he withheld US national defense information and deliberately shared it several times with other users on the social media platform Discord.
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Jack Teixeira, a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was detained on April 14, 2023, for allegedly publishing secret documents of the US army on the internet.
It was noted that the documents that Teixeira allegedly leaked on the internet, bearing the coat of arms of the US General Staff, included information about potential vulnerabilities in the defense of Ukraine, which is at war with Russia, and the number of UK special forces allegedly active in the country.
It was noted that the documents included military and current information on important issues, including the intelligence activities regarding the nuclear program of Russia, Israel, Canada, South Korea, China and Iran.
It was pointed out that the documents shared by Teixeira on the internet were as important as the 2010 WikiLeaks scandal, in which documents proving the crimes committed by the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan were published, and the leak of digital surveillance activities by former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden in 2013. .
Source: www.star.com.tr
