AG Merrick Garland refuses to say if others will be charged in docs leak probe

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Jack Teixeira, who faced a Massachusetts court earlier on Friday for the first time, is accused of accessing classified materials at the Cape Cod base where he worked before sharing them with membe…

Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to say Friday if others will also be charged over the leak of classified US documents after a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was arrested for allegedly spilling the intel online.earlier on Friday for the first time, is accused of accessing classified materials at the Cape Cod base where he worked before sharing them with members of his private Discord chat group.

Attorney General Merrick Garland wouldn’t say Friday if there are any other suspects in the leak of classified US documents“This is not just about taking home documents, that is of course illegal itself. This is about the transmission, both the unlawful retention and the transmission of the document,” Garland continued.The attorney general stressed the national security implications of the case — and vowed to send a message.

“Based on my training and experience, I know that to acquire his security clearance, Teixeira would have signed a lifetime binding non-disclosure agreement in which he would have had to acknowledge that the unauthorized disclosure of protected information could result in criminal charges,” the agent said in a sworn statement.

 

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Whoever gave this Junior Tech the access should be court-martialed, no way! He should have had that kind of clearance.

Nothing but liars and thieves.

Check Biden’s garage….. Just saying.

It would be in his best interest to identify as trans or non-binary or any minority group. If he's staying with straight, white, male, he is F*ed.

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