This picture illustration reveals nationwide guardsman Jack Teixeira mirrored in a picture of the Pentagon.

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This picture illustration reveals nationwide guardsman Jack Teixeira mirrored in a picture of the Pentagon.

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Jack Teixeira, the previous Air National guardsman charged with leaking categorized navy paperwork on-line, is predicted to plead responsible within the case. Prosecutors on Thursday filed a movement in federal courtroom in Boston asking for a change of plea listening to subsequent week.

The request comes nearly a 12 months after Teixeira was arrested and charged with the unlawful retention and transmission of nationwide protection data. He originally pleaded not guilty to the fees.

Teixiera was indicted in June 2023 by a federal grand jury in Boston following his arrest that April after he allegedly shared extremely categorized navy paperwork concerning the battle in Ukraine, along with different to nationwide safety points on Discord, the social media web site.

What Teixiera is alleged to have performed

According to charging paperwork, Teixeira had labored within the 102nd Intelligence Wing based mostly at Otis Air Force Base in Cape Cod, Mass., since May 2022 till his arrest. He was a cyber transports techniques journeyman — just like an data know-how specialist — for the National Guard.

His unit gives worldwide intelligence for fight assist and homeland safety. Teixeira was granted a “top secret security clearance” in 2021, that means he would have signed a “lifetime binding non-disclosure agreement” acknowledging that leaking protected data may lead to prison costs, in response to the federal criticism.

According to the courtroom paperwork, a social media consumer suspected of being Teixeira started releasing categorized data in “paragraphs of text” onto a social media platform later revealed to be Discord as early as December 2022.

Initially, the aim of divulging secret data was to “discuss geopolitical affairs and current and historical wars,” the federal criticism stated.

But starting in January, the web consumer started posting pictures of what gave the impression to be official U.S. authorities paperwork with classification markings. Among the paperwork photographed was the standing of the Russia-Ukraine battle, together with troop actions on a specific date.

The leaker later defined to a different consumer that he was involved that he would get in bother for “making the transcriptions of text in the workplace” so he started taking the paperwork to his residence and photographing them, one other on-line consumer identified to have interacted with the leaker advised the FBI.

Fallout from the leaks

Following the leaks, the Air National Guard took motion in opposition to 15 service members, starting from sergeants to colonels, for dereliction of duties for not stopping Teixeira’s alleged exercise. Some have been fired, others obtained administrative punishment. Col. Sean Riley, who headed the 102^nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod, was relieved of command. The Guard stated it additionally suspended different commanders and stated the 102^nd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group was “taken off mission” when Teixeira was found because the supply of the unauthorized disclosures.

The Air Force Inspector General’s report painted a damning image of inaction by officers in Teixeira’s unit, who have been repeatedly conscious of what he was doing.

“Had any of these members come forward, security officials would likely have facilitated restricting systems/facility access and alerted the appropriate authorities, reducing the length and depth of the unauthorized and unlawful disclosures by several months,” the report stated.

With reporting by NPR’s Juliana Kim, Jenna McLaughlin and Tom Bowman