The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 14th (local time) that the countertop in the photos of the leaked documents provided important clues to the arrest of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guard soldier, on charges of leaking classified US documents. Reported.
According to the NYT, Teixeira is accused of distributing classified US intelligence documents for the first time in the chat room he was running, Thug Shaker Central. matched
The NYT investigative team found the family’s Instagram account through his online game account and deduced that Teixeira was the first person to spread classified documents.
Investigator Christian Trierbert, part of the NYT coverage team, said: “We were able to trace Teixeira’s Instagram profile by checking his Steam (game platform) account, which led us to the location where the classified documents were filmed. It was Teixeira’s house.”
He recalled, “Our team was waiting to talk to Teixeira (in front of his father’s house) and confirmed that a red pickup truck that he was believed to be riding was coming, but the driver stopped as soon as he saw us and drove past.”
Meanwhile, Teixeira was arrested on the 13th and appeared for the first time in federal court the following day. A private in the U.S. Air Force Massachusetts National Guard, he faces two charges related to the leaking of classified documents at the hearing: unauthorized possession and dissemination of defense information and taking out and possession of classified documents or materials.
Private Teixeira was known to have posted at least 100 confidential documents in the chat room he was running on the online chat service ‘Discord’ in March and before that, but according to court documents submitted by the investigative authorities, he was 12 last year. Since the menstruation, confidential documents have been leaked.
Source: Donga
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