The Air National Guardsman charged with leaking highly classified military documents made a brief court appearance, as a hearing to determine whether he should remain jailed while awaiting trial was delayed to give the defense more time to prepare.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman charged with leaking highly classified military documents made a brief court appearance Wednesday, as a hearing to determine whether he should remain jailed while awaiting trial was delayed to give the defense more time to prepare., 21, had been scheduled for a detention hearing in Boston's federal court, but the judge canceled it after Teixeira's lawyer filed a motion requesting that it be delayed for about two weeks.
Air Force leaders said Tuesday they were investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents. The Air Force has also taken away the intelligence mission from the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Cape Cod, where Teixeira served, pending further review.
A Discord user familiar with Teixeira's online posts told the FBI that a username linked to Teixeira began posting what appeared to be classified information roughly in December. The person provided the FBI with basic identifying information about Teixeira, including that he called himself "Jack," claimed to be part of the Air National Guard and appeared to live in Massachusetts, according to the court records.
The prosecution affidavit alleges Teixeira was detected on April 6 — the day the New York Times first published a story about the breach of documents — searching for the word "leak" in a classified system. The FBI says that was reason to believe Teixeira was trying to find information about the investigation into who was responsible for the leaks.
The Biden administration has scrambled to contain the potential diplomatic and military fallout from the leaks since they were first reported, moving to reassure allies and assess the scope of the damage. There has been no clear answer on how many documents were leaked. The Associated Press has viewed approximately 50 documents; some estimates put the total number in the hundreds.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he still wants to know the full extent of what was released, why it wasn't spotted sooner and the overall impact.
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