The Pentagon whistleblower was sentenced to 15 years in prison

Former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday by US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston after pleading guilty in March to publishing top-secret Pentagon military information online. was convicted

According to Reuters News agency, Teixeira said to Talwani in prison uniform: “I am sorry for the harm I have caused and I apologize.”

The judge in the case said that despite being given the necessary training and warnings about disclosing classified documents, Teixeira leaked hundreds of documents online over a one-year period.

Jack Teixeira’s lawyers asked Judge Talwani to impose only an 11-year term on him because the 22-year-old is “isolated” and has “autism”.

They also said: “Teixeira’s intention was not to harm the United States, but he simply intended to provide information to his virtual friends about the war in Ukraine.” He foolishly thought he could trust his friend.”

According to the published court documents, “Jack Teixeira”, a former member of the US National Guard, has confessed to 6 counts of leaking top-secret Pentagon military intelligence documents.

This former member of the American National Guard initially did not accept the charges, but later it was announced that he changed his mind and plans to confess to his crimes. This young man had published American military secrets in a private group on Discord messenger; The group that he personally was the manager of.

Last year, in a span of less than a month, 2 sets of US military documents were leaked on the Internet and made the Pentagon scrambling to remove these documents from the Internet.

U.S. prosecutors will ask a judge on Tuesday to sentence Pentagon whistleblower Jack Teixeira to nearly 17 years in prison, but after multiple appeals, the sentence was changed to 15 years.

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