Judge delays detention hearing for alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira

A federal choose on Wednesday delayed a pretrial detention listening to for Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old airman within the Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard accused of posting dozens of secret Pentagon paperwork to social media. 

Teixeira has been charged with illegal retention and transmission of nationwide protection data and unauthorized removing and retention of categorised paperwork. If convicted on each prices, he faces as much as 15 years in jail.

Justice of the Peace Choose David Hennessy on Wednesday granted a request by Teixeira’s public defenders to delay the scheduled listening to for 2 weeks to present them time to evaluate the federal government’s request for detention. Teixeira has waived his proper to a preliminary listening to.  

Teixeira was arrested on April 13, per week after the paperwork, posted to the social messaging platform Discord beginning in February 2023, had turn out to be public data. 

It isn’t identified what number of paperwork had been posted. CBS Information has reviewed greater than 50 that look like a part of the leak. The paperwork reviewed cowl the Russia-Ukraine battle, China, Turkey, South Korea and Israel. 

In accordance with charging paperwork, one of many posted paperwork “described the standing of the Russia Ukraine battle, together with troop actions, on a selected date.” The federal government confirmed that the doc in query is assessed on the highest degree, in response to the prison criticism. 

Teixeira has held a TS/SCI  — High Secret clearance, with entry to Delicate Compartmented Data — since 2021, courtroom papers mentioned. 

Teixeira was a part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing and stationed at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A Pentagon official instructed CBS Information on Tuesday that work on the 102nd Intelligence Wing has been paused since Teixeira’s arrest. 

The White Home has been making an attempt to asses the injury from the leaks. Nationwide Safety Council spokesman Jack Kirby mentioned Tuesday that President Biden has tasked the director of nationwide intelligence to conduct a “systematic intelligence community-wide injury evaluation, in order that we could higher perceive the complete scope of what we’re coping with.” 

Kirby mentioned Mr. Biden has additionally directed senior leaders throughout the administration to succeed in out to U.S. allies to “reassure them about our dedication to safeguarding intelligence, to reply to the very best of our means, any questions that they could have and to specific our continued dedication to all our safety partnerships.”  

Catherine Herridge, David Martin and Eleanor Watson contributed to this report. 

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