Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member convicted of leaking highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, used his Court-Martial Thursday to describe himself as a “proud patriot” who tried the supposed “lies” of the Biden Administration.
After he had declared guilty of military allegations of obstructing justice, the 23-year-old acknowledged that he knew War in Ukraine.
“If I even saved one American, Russian or Ukrainian life against this meaningless war grarab war, my punishment would be worth it,” he said, adding that he was “comfortable in how history will remember my actions.”
Teixeira drew parallels with President Donald Trump, claiming that he was also a victim of a armed Ministry of Justice. He called on the Trump administration to “revise my double persecution and penalties with a view to reversing deep-state actions and showing the truth, no matter how embarrassing for the Biden administration.”
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File – Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, on the right, appears in the American court in Boston, Friday, April 14, 2023. (Margaret Small via AP)
Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison last year after he had been guilty of the federal court to six counts of intentional storage and transfer of national defense information under the espionage act after his arrest for sharing classified documents on a Discord chatroom.
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The leaks exposed to the world without wilted secret assessments of the Russian war in Ukraine, including information about troop movements in Ukraine, and offering deliveries and equipment to Ukrainian troops. The documents also revealed reviews of the Defense options of Taiwan and internal arguments in Britain, Egypt, Israel, South Korea and Japan. Teixeira also admitted information about placing an American opponent’s plans to harm American troops abroad.
The Discord logo and the national guard Jack Teixeira are reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty images)
Teixeira, Van North Dignton, Massachusetts, worked as a specialist in information technology responsible for military communication networks. His lawyers described Teixeira as an autistic, isolated person who spent most of his time online, especially with his Discord community, and never harm the intention of the US
File: This illustration made on April 13, 2023, shows the suspect, the national guard Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty images)
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The infringement of safety forced the BIDEN administration to clamber to trying to contain diplomatic and military fallout. The leaks also ashamed the Pentagon, which tightened the checks to protect classified information and disciplined members who have deliberately taken the required action with regard to Teixeira’s suspicious behavior.
