WORCESTER, Mass. — Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts airman accused of leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, asked a magistrate judge to release him from pretrial detention on the 'least restrictive conditions,' accusing the government of engaging in 'hyperbolic judgments' and denying he poses a risk of flight or obstructing justice in his case.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts airman accused of leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, asked a magistrate judge to release him from pretrial detention on the"least restrictive conditions," accusing the government of engaging in"hyperbolic judgments" and denying he poses a risk of flight or obstructing justice in his case.
Teixeira's lawyer, Allen Franco, also suggested that Teixeira could have restrictions imposed on him like location monitoring, barring him from accessing the internet or contacting any potential witnesses in the case and bond that could be secured by both his parents' homes. Franco revealed that the incident was also"fully known and vetted by the Air National Guard prior to enlisting and also when he obtained his top-secret security clearance."
Federal prosecutors argued in a new court filing on Wednesday that Teixeira"poses a serious flight risk" and it would be"all too easy" for him, if released on bail,"to further disseminate classified information" and"take refuge with a foreign adversary.
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