Insights into US data leak
Supervisor warned suspect months ago
May 18, 2023 at 6:07 p.m
In the case of the recently uncovered data leak from US secret service documents, it turns out that the suspect is said to have been noticed by his superior in October 2022 for “worrying acts” and instructed to stop taking notes.
New information in the case of the recently uncovered US intelligence leak raises the question of whether the release of top-secret military documents could have been stopped sooner. The suspect Jack Teixeira had already been warned by his superiors in September and October 2022, according to published court documents. The warnings were about “worrying acts” that the defendant had undertaken in connection with classified information. Teixeira was instructed by his superiors not to take any more notes on classified information.
In the court documents, prosecutors are demanding that the arrested military IT specialist be kept in prison until the trial begins. A decision on this was still pending – the judge had not yet made a decision on a detention review date at the end of April. The prosecution now argues that Teixeira knew he was breaking the law when he released the classified information. This is a clear indication that he would not comply with the court’s requirements if he were allowed to leave prison.
“His own posts make it clear that he simply didn’t care what his government or his superiors told him,” the prosecution wrote of the suspect’s posts in chat groups. Teixeira, in his early 20s, is suspected of having published highly confidential documents from the US secret services and the Department of Defense in a closed chat room. From there they are said to have spread further until authorities and the media became aware of them.
The classified information contained information on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, but also details on alleged US spying operations against partners. Teixeira was arrested in April. He is charged with unauthorized removal, storage and transmission of classified and national defense information. Teixeira faces up to 25 years in prison.