Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was arrested after being suspected of being the leader of the Discord group where the highly classified documents were first leaked.
A remarkable leak, a breathtaking breach of security, a strain on America's alliances globally, and on Thursday afternoon it all came to a dramatic end in a rural corner of Massachusetts.
The day's events were very fast moving and began not, as might have been expected, with breakthroughs by the authorities investigating the leak, but instead from a series of investigations by the media. First, a scoop from the Washington Post newspaper which revealed that an individual had leaked the information to a small circle of online friends on a social media platform called Discord, popular with gamers.Moment 'leaker' of US documents arrested
The Post obtained an interview with a member of the group who claimed the documents had then been disseminated out beyond the closed group. By late morning, The New York Times, working with the open-source investigators Bellingcat, published a trail of digital evidence which they claimed
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