Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of sharing classified documents in chatrooms, brazenly admitted that he was breaking the law, federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing. “Idgaf what they say I can or can’t share,” he wrote online.
“public information,” Teixeira, prosecutors said, admitted that he was violating unauthorized-disclosure regulations and breaking the nondisclosure agreement he was made to sign before obtaining access to the documents.
These latest developments come as part of the federal government’s efforts to keep Teixeira detained until trial. On Wednesday, prosecutors told the US District Court in Massachusetts—the judicial body overseeing the case—that Teixeira had leaked information to people in other countries,that, if he were released before trial, US adversaries would “salivate” at the prospect of helping him escape.
“That the Defendant continued posting classified information despite keen awareness that he was violating the law…is a clear indication that he will be undeterred by any restrictions this Court places upon him and will not hesitate to circumvent those restrictions if he deems it in his interest to do so,” prosecutors wrote.
Initial reports on the affair suggested that Teixeira had shared the documents in a small, tight-knit chat room he hosted on Discord—a social media platform popular among gamers and young people—and then other members of the group had spread the files more broadly. His defense lawyers have
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