{"id":1914545,"date":"2023-04-14T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fbi-arrests-21-year-old-suspect-in-intel-leak\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T00:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:46:46","slug":"watch-fbi-arrests-21-year-old-suspect-in-intel-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fbi-arrests-21-year-old-suspect-in-intel-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: FBI Arrests 21-Year-Old Suspect in Intel Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-fbi-arrests-21-year-old-suspect-in-intel-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guardsman believed to have leaked a vast amount of classified US intelligence documents, was apprehended by the FBI at his home in Dighton, Massachusetts on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira was seen in aerial footage surrendering to FBI agents who approached him with rifles from behind an armored vehicle. The Attorney General Merrick Garland stated that Teixeira was taken into custody &#8220;in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira has been named as the source of the leak by several media outlets, including the Washington Post and New York Times, who allege that he shared the documents on the messaging app Discord with his friends. The leaked intelligence includes confidential reports on the Ukraine war and the US government&#8217;s spying activities on allies. It is currently unknown how Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, obtained access to the classified information. <\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden confirmed earlier on Thursday that law enforcement agencies were &#8220;getting close&#8221; to identifying the person who leaked the information, which has caused serious damage to the US&#8217;s relationships with allies, particularly South Korea. There has been outrage in South Korea over reports that the leaked documents revealed that the US spied on senior officials from the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n         <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" title=\"View all posts in FBI\">FBI<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-year-old National Guardsman suspected of leaking troves of classified U.S. intelligence documents was arrested Thursday by FBI agents at his home in Dighton, Mass. Aerial footage showed the suspect, Jack Teixeira, surrendering to authorities who pointed rifles at him from behind the cover of an armored vehicle. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the FBI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1914546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[24345,4283,5591,7526,3654,4230,4516],"class_list":["post-1914545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-21-year-old","tag-arrests","tag-fbi","tag-intel","tag-leak","tag-suspect","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}