On Tuesday, a part of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who admitted to leaking classified military records, including those relating to the war in Ukraine, will make an additional charge in front of the military righteousness proceeding.
Teixeira, 22, was detained in April 2023 on suspicion of one of the country’s most major national security breaches in a long time.
After agreeing to spend at least 11 years in prison, he admitted guilt in March to the claims brought by the US Department of Justice. However, the Air Force’s decision to file separate charges against him in the military justice program, which announced on May 1 that it would investigate allegations of wrongdoing relating to Teixeira’s duties, was open to interpretation due to the situation in civil court.
He is accused of obstructing fairness and abiding by a law. Those claims carry a maximum statement of 10- 1/2 years in prison if Teixeira is convicted.
Prosecutors at Tuesday’s hearing at Hanscom Air Force Base, about 20 miles (32 kilometers ) northwest of Boston, will provide information to a natural agent to determine whether the evidence is sufficient for the situation to continue to test by court- martial.
A defense lawyer for Teixeira could not be identified. Before his arrest at his mother’s home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, Teixeira had been an infantryman 1st school at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where he worked as a computer security operations apprentice or information technology support specialist.
Despite being a low- level airman, Teixeira held a top- secret security clearance, and starting in January 2022 began accessing hundreds of classified documents related to topics including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to federal prosecutors.
Under the username” TheExcaliburEffect”, Teixeira shared classified information on the messaging app Discord in private servers- a kind of chat room- while bragging he had access to” stuff for Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iran, and China”.
Details relating to troop movements in Ukraine to Israel’s Mossad spy agency were contained in highly classified documents that were leaked.
He is slated to be sentenced in the Justice Department’s case on Sept. 27.
