{"id":55481,"date":"2024-03-01T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/air-national-guardsman-teixeira-to-admit-he-was-pentagon-files-leaker\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:03:15","slug":"air-national-guardsman-teixeira-to-admit-he-was-pentagon-files-leaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/air-national-guardsman-teixeira-to-admit-he-was-pentagon-files-leaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking dozens of classified Pentagon documents, is expected to plead guilty in a US court on Monday.<\/p>\n

Teixeira allegedly shared the top-secret files and photographs via his private Discord server in February 2022, and these classified documents later surfaced<\/a> on social media. It’s believed the then-21-year-old, who reportedly liked gaming and guns<\/a>, was obsessed with mass shootings and conspiracy theories<\/a>, and leaked the classified military information in an attempt to impress his fellow gamers online.<\/p>\n

A US Air Force report made public in December concluded Teixeira was the only airman<\/a> behind the leak, though determined that his chain of command bears some responsibility for letting the classified data dump happen on its watch.<\/p>\n