A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who posted dozens of secret intelligence reports and other sensitive documents on a social media server, on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national defense information.
The filing of criminal charges in Boston federal court against Airman Teixeira, 21, comes about two months after F.B.I.
But it was not immediately clear how many of the vaguely described incidents that underlie the charges had been previously disclosed and which ones were being made public for the first time.
Airman Teixeira’s disclosures — exposing secrets of the United States, its allies and its adversaries — have bared rifts between the United States and its allies and given Russia information about intelligence-gathering methods, as news organizations have divulged some of the material.
And Justice Department lawyers have said the extent of the information he leaked “far exceeds what has been publicly disclosed.”
Persons:
Jack Teixeira, Teixeira, —, ”
Organizations:
Massachusetts Air National, Department
Locations:
Boston, North Dighton, United States, Russia