{"id":1934777,"date":"2023-05-20T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-caught-alleged-pentagon-leaker-taking-notes-on-classified-docs-multiple-times-before-arrest-court-filing-says\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:14:31","slug":"military-caught-alleged-pentagon-leaker-taking-notes-on-classified-docs-multiple-times-before-arrest-court-filing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-caught-alleged-pentagon-leaker-taking-notes-on-classified-docs-multiple-times-before-arrest-court-filing-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon leaker caught taking notes on classified documents multiple times before arrest, court filing reveals."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fmilitary-caught-alleged-pentagon-leaker-taking-notes-on-classified-docs-multiple-times-before-arrest-court-filing-says%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=1934777&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--><h2>Military Arrests Airman for Leaking Classified Documents<\/h2>\n<p>The military has caught Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who was arrested last month for allegedly leaking hundreds of classified documents. According to a court filing, Teixeira accessed and took notes on classified data multiple times before he was charged.<\/p>\n<h3>Repeated Disregard of Protocol<\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Justice filed a motion on Wednesday to deny Teixeira bail, arguing that the 21-year-old\u2019s repeated disregard of protocol showed him to be a threat to national security who warranted strict detention. Military officials warned Teixeira multiple times about inappropriately sifting around the Pentagon\u2019s classified intelligence database, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System.<\/p>\n<h3>Multiple Warnings Ignored<\/h3>\n<p>According to a September 15, 2022, Air Force memo included in the DOJ\u2019s filing, Teixeira \u201chad been observed taking notes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-lawmakers-react-to-omars-removal-from-foreign-affairs-committee\/\" title=\"White House, Lawmakers React to Omar\u2019s Removal From Foreign Affairs Committee\">classified intelligence information<\/a>\u201d inside a room for viewing classified material. The airman was warned \u201cto no longer take notes in any form on classified intelligence information,\u201d the memo said. Another Air Force memo written about a month later said that Teixeira \u201cwas potentially ignoring the cease-and-desist order\u201d and noted that he was told again to avoid \u201cany deep dives into classified intelligence information\u201d and to \u201cfocus on his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Security Clearance Maintained Despite Warnings<\/h3>\n<p>Throughout the time that Teixeira was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-dr-faucis-resignation-will-not-prevent-investigation\/\" title=\"Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci's Resignation Will Not Prevent Investigation\">repeatedly caught<\/a> and warned against inappropriately accessing classified material, Teixeira kept his job with the Air National Guard as well as his security clearance, which allowed him to access some of the most sensitive information known to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<h3>Charged with Espionage Act Violations<\/h3>\n<p>Teixeira has been charged with two Espionage Act violations that carry a penalty of 10 years in prison each. Prosecutors say that Teixeira shared hundreds of classified documents and intelligence online to a group of people located all over the world. The intelligence was first shared to a private Discord server before one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-caught-alleged-pentagon-leaker-taking-notes-on-classified-docs-multiple-times-before-arrest-court-filing-says\/\" title=\"Pentagon leaker caught taking notes on classified documents multiple times before arrest, court filing reveals.\">members began posting classified intelligence<\/a> more widely. Dozens of documents later circulated online, causing the most serious U.S. intelligence breach in at least a decade.<\/p>\n<h3>Superiors Placed on Leave<\/h3>\n<p>Two of Teixeira\u2019s superiors have been placed on leave while an investigation into the leaks continues, an Air Force spokeswoman told the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira underwent training as recently as March to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, according to the NYT. Prosecutors said that Teixeira repeatedly transgressed military officials and protocol despite being \u201cwell aware of his obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This case highlights the importance of following protocol and the severe consequences that can result from disregarding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Teixeira, who was arrested for leaking classified documents, accessed and took notes on classified data multiple times before being charged, according to a court filing. The military caught him, and the Department of Justice filed a motion to deny him bail, citing his repeated disregard of protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1934778,"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":[541],"tags":[5175,3656,7372,4733,5407,7014,11004,4066,13854,3761,5114,4126],"class_list":["post-1934777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-arrest","tag-caught","tag-classified","tag-court","tag-documents","tag-filing","tag-leaker","tag-multiple","tag-notes","tag-pentagon","tag-reveals","tag-times"],"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\/1934777","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}