FBI agents arrested a 21-year-old national guardsman suspected of being behind a major leak of sensitive US government secrets — including about the Ukraine war.
News footage of the operation, in the North Dighton area of Massachusetts, showed the suspect — dressed in red shorts and a t-shirt with his hands behind his head — backing slowing toward rifle-armed, camouflage-clad law enforcement personnel who took him into custody.
Teixeira was expected to make an initial appearance as early as Friday at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Teixeira’s arrest came a day after The Washington Post reported that hundreds of pages of documents had been posted on the social media platform Discord by a man who worked on a US military base.According to The New York Times, a “trail of digital evidence” pointed to Teixeira as the leader of the private group on Discord, called Thug Shaker Central, where the documents surfaced.
The alleged leaker reportedly went by the nickname “OG” and regularly posted documents in the chat group in question for months. He first wrote down the contents of classified documents to share with the group, but later began taking photos, telling other members not to share them, the newspaper reported.
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