The man arrested for allegedly leaking top secret U.S. military documents appeared in court for the first time on Friday after being charged with obtaining and leaking classified information.
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s intelligence wing, is being accused of taking classified military documents and transmitting them online.
Evidence obtained in an investigation, including billing records, showed that Teixeira took at least one government document and posted it on an unidentified platform, according to charging documents. Discord, a messaging platform, has said it was cooperating with U.S. authorities after reports the documents were posted there….
