The FBI has been interviewing members of a private Discord server where a 21-year-old National Guardsman is alleged to have shared classified documents.
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For the past several years, U.S. intelligence officials have worried that gaming platforms like Discord created an opportunity for foreign governments to access U.S. secrets, including by encouraging people with access to classified information to share it online. One former member of the server told law enforcement officials that Teixeira began sharing classified documents in December. But two others told The Post that he provided documents earlier than that, beginning around last summer.
Secret and top-secret documents were now available to thousands of Discord users, but the leak wouldn’t come to the attention ofThe Justice Department is unlikely to charge members of the server for viewing or sharing the classified information, based on past cases. Historically, the government has almost always charged only individuals with security clearances, which legally obligate them not to share classified information with people who aren’t authorized to see it.
Members of the Discord server said Teixeira shared the information with the group on his own, part of his desire to keep his online tribe informed about world events.
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