Jack Teixeira was reading a book on the deck of his home in a wooded section of North Dighton, Massachusetts, on Thursday, when federal agents swarmed in for what turned out to be an easy arrest. The 21-year-old airman, who was wearing red shorts and an olive T-shirt, has suddenly emerged as the latest outlaw within America’s national security apparatus, after a flash investigation.
The US authorities believe Teixeira was behind the massive leak of ultra-sensitive military documents, mainly related to the war in Ukraine, in a series of online postings that have shaken the US foreign policy and defence establishments and risk seriously fraying ties with key allies. He was arraigned in federal court on Friday and is being detained until a new hearing next Wednesday.
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