US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the FBI had arrested, Thursday, April 13, 2023, Jack Douglas Tekesra, who is accused of leaking classified documents from the Pentagon, in one of the most damaging leaks of US government information, and embarrassed Washington in front of its allies around the world.
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According to Reuters, Jack Douglas Tekesra, a 21-year-old member of the Air Force National Guard intelligence, joined the Air National Guard in 2019 and worked as an information technology specialist at the Air Force base. "Fort Bragg" North Carolina when he initiated the Pentagon leak.
** Arrest from home
Yesterday, FBI agents, with an armored vehicle and military equipment, raided Tekesra’s home in Dayton, Massachusetts, where his arrest came a week after the leaks were first widely reported, which has raised Washington’s concern about the damage they may have caused.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a brief press conference that the suspect was identified as Jacques Teixeira "He was arrested without incident" He will soon appear in a federal court in Massachusetts, explaining that Tekesra is under arrest on charges related to "An investigation into the accusation of unauthorized extraction, retention and transmission of classified national defense information".
** How did he get to the Pentagon documents?
John Miller, CNN’s chief intelligence and law enforcement analyst, revealed the background to the investigations that led to the arrest of the suspect in the Pentagon leaks case.
In that, Miller said that the accused’s job has a sensitive and lively nature; And the workers in this wing provide the units with a huge volume of analyzes and intelligence data collected, and they are also entrusted with the tasks of collecting cyber security information; This is a broader job, he says.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the person who leaked classified US documents that led to a national security investigation is a young man in his twenties, fond of firearms, and was working on a military base.
The newspaper indicated that the accused, in his twenties, shared this information in a group on the instant messaging platform (Discord) that included about 20 men and boys united by “the common love of weapons and military equipment, and by God.”" .
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