The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Air Force national guardsman in connection with the leak of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war.
Jack Teixeira had originally been identified by The New York Times ahead of his arrest on Thursday as the alleged leader of the group where a trove of classified documents was posted.
Texeira, an IT worker in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is to be charged under the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to remove or transmit classified national defense information, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
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