Jack Teixeira, a 22-year-old US Air National Guardsman, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking classified Pentagon documents, including intelligence on the Ukraine war, to an online platform. Teixeira pleaded guilty to the charges, which prosecutors described as one of the most significant violations of the Espionage Act in US history. Despite his defense citing personal struggles, the court emphasized the seriousness of his actions. The leak has prompted the Pentagon to review its handling of classified information.
A 21-year-old airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been arrested for leaking hundreds of pages of classified Pentagon documents on a Discord server. The documents reveal insights into the war in Ukraine, military casualties, and the presence of U.S. and other NATO nations’ special forces operating in the war zone. The leak sheds light on U.S. penetration of Russian military plans and U.S. spy efforts, including against American allies and the United Nations secretary general. The Intercepted podcast discusses the document leak and the accused airman's potential Espionage Act trial.
Leaked Pentagon documents reveal that Ukraine's military intelligence chief ordered an elite unit to stabilize the situation in Bakhmut, a war-torn city in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, as Russian forces were closing in. The battle for Bakhmut has been the bloodiest of the 13-month-long war, and has seen both sides commit scores of troops, heavy armor, and advanced military equipment to the fight. The leaked US intelligence on Bakhmut, which offers insight into high-level Ukrainian decision-making, is only a slice of what the documents contain about Kyiv's military.
