Pentagon documents: key takeaways from the Jack Teixeira charges
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6AT92)
The 21-year-old suspect was charged on Friday under the Espionage Act - here's what to know about FBI efforts to identify him
Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old member of the air national guard suspected of leaking hundreds of top secret Pentagon documents on a gaming chat server, was charged on Friday under the Espionage Act and a statute relating to the mishandling of classified documents.
Teixeira was charged in federal court in Boston with two separate counts: 18 USC 793(b) and 793(d), the unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information, and 18 USC 1924, the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents.
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