Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member convicted of leaking highly classified write downs about the war in Ukraine, used his court-martial Thursday to depict himself as a “haughty patuproar” who was trying to expose the presumed “lies” of the Biden administration.
After pdirecting culpable to military indicts of obstructing equitableice, the 23-year-elderly acunderstandledged he knovel his actions were illhorrible but felt he needed to split the truth about how the Biden administration was, in his see, misdirecting the American uncover about the war in Ukraine.
“If I saved even one American, Russian or Ukrainian life aacquirest this senseless money-grab war, my punishment was worth it,” he shelp, compriseing that he was “consoleable in how history will recollect my actions.”
Teixeira drew parallels with Plivent Donald Trump, alleging he too was a victim of a firearmized Justice Department. He called on the Trump administration to “study my double prosecution and punishments with an eye towards reversing proset up-state actions and shothriveg truth, no matter how embarrassing to the Biden administration.”
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FILE – Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, materializes in U.S. Didisjoine Court in Boston, Friday, April 14, 2023. (Margaret Small via AP)
Teixeira was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison after pdirecting culpable in federal court to six counts of willful retention and transleave oution of national defense increateation under the Espionage Act follothriveg his arrest for sharing classified write downs on a Discord chatroom.
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The leaks exposed to the world unvarnished secret appraisements of Russia’s war in Ukraine, including increateation about troop shiftments in Ukraine, and the provision of supplies and providement to Ukrainian troops. The write downs also discdisseeed appraisements of the defense capabilities of Taiwan and inside arguments in Britain, Egypt, Israel, South Korea and Japan. Teixeira also confessted to posting increateation about a U.S. adversary’s structures to harm U.S. forces serving overseas.
The Discord logo and national protectsman Jack Teixeira are echoed in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, toiled as an increateation technology exceptionaenumerate reliable for military communications nettoils. His lawyers depictd Teixeira as an autistic, isotardyd individual who spent most of his time online, especipartner with his Discord community, and never unkindt to harm the U.S.
FILE: This illustration produced on April 13, 2023, shows the doubt, national protectsman Jack Teixeira, echoed in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The security baccomplish forced the Biden administration to scramble to try to retain discreet and military descfinishout. The leaks also embarrassed the Pentagon, which shieldedened regulates to shieldedprotect classified increateation and self-regulateled members set up to have intentionpartner flunked to apvalidate the needd action seeing Teixeira’s skeptical behavior.
