2023-04-28 02:11:24
Racist, obsessed with weapons, fascinated by the idea of carnage: the profile of Jack Teixeira is becoming clearer. The 21-year-old American soldier, responsible for the massive leak of classified documents, was arrested in North Dighton (Massachusetts) on April 13. Since then, the extent of the damage has been revealed: with a top secret clearance, Jack Teixeira, a member of the Air National Guard, initiated the first broadcasts on the Internet from February 2022, at the start of the war in Ukraine. , and not in October, as we thought. He would have accessed “hundreds of documents” as part of his duties as a computer scientist in an intelligence unit whose commander was suspended.
This is one of the lessons contained in the brief filed before a judge in Boston by the public prosecutor to justify the provisional detention of Jack Teixeira. Thursday, April 27, the magistrate postponed his decision to a later date. In this document, it is recalled that the defendant risks twenty-five years in prison, or even “potentially much more”, and that he could still have access to “a mine of classified information”. This one would be “of enormous value to hostile nation states that might offer him refuge and try to facilitate his escape from the United States.”
The memoir also insists on Jack Teixeira’s desire to erase the evidence of his crime. He had become the host of a closed circle of conversation on the Discord platform, popular with video game enthusiasts. This group was made up of around twenty people, the majority of whom were minors, over whom Jack Teixeira exercised a mixture of fascination and authority, with his confidential information. He ended up instructing them to remove traces of their nurturing exchanges.
The police also discovered in his home an electronic tablet, a laptop computer and a game console deliberately degraded. Jack Teixeira’s lawyers, for their part, highlighted a photo of him reading the Bible outside the family home, waiting for the FBI. Supposed proof of his refusal to flee.
“Eliminate the weak-minded”
In high school, which he left in 2018, Jack Teixeira had already been suspended when another student heard him utter racist remarks and mention the use of weapons and Molotov cocktails in the establishment. These remarks justified a refusal by the local authorities when the teenager applied for a gun license. He repeated this approach over the next two years. These details reinforce questions about the military recruitment of Jack Teixeira and the lack of serious checks on his background.
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