Washington (EFE).- Jack Teixeira, the young member of the Air National Guard arrested in connection with one of the largest leaks of secret Pentagon documents, will appear this Friday for the first time before a federal court in Boston after his arrest on Thursday
According to the CNN television network, which cited sources from the Boston Attorney General’s Office, Teixeira, 21, will be read the charges for which he will be prosecuted, which are still unknown and whose innocence or guilt must be pronounced.
However, the US Attorney General, Merrick Garland, assured this Thursday after the arrest of the young man, that the accusations are related to the “alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified information related to national defense.”
Gun lover, racist and anti-semite
The federal police (FBI) arrested this Thursday in the town of North Dighton (Massachusetts) Teixeira, the alleged author of the leaks of secret documents, especially related to the war in Ukraine, which have shaken the United States in recent days and that could be the most serious in a decade.
The authorities have not revealed details about how the leaks occurred, but several outlets have reported that Teixeira published the secret documents he obtained at the National Guard base where he worked, because he wanted to impress other young people with whom he communicated. through an internet platform popular among video game fans.
Teixeira is described in the media as a gun lover with racist and anti-Semitic ideas.
Russia “carefully” analyzes leaked documents
For its part, Russia said today that its duty is to carefully study the leaked Pentagon documents, which include assessments of the progress of the military campaign in Ukraine, the state of the anti-aircraft defense of Ukrainian troops or the deaths on both sides, among other revelations.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said in his daily telephone briefing that the leak and the arrest of a suspect in disseminating the secret documents “is rather a concern of the US special services, not ours.”
What does interest Russia is the content of the published documents, he said.
“Our concern is to analyze this data, even to question its reliability, but to study it carefully,” not so much the Kremlin, but the Russian special services, Peskov stressed.
The Pentagon considers the leak of the documents a “deliberate criminal act,” but has not explained how a young man who has been in the Massachusetts National Guard for just over three years was able to access classified information that compromises America’s allies. and details US and NATO plans to bolster the anti-Russian offensive in Ukraine.