‘It was basically to impress his friends’: DOJ arrests Pentagon docs leaker



After a week of scrambling by U.S. officials, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest of the suspect tied to the Pentagon classified documents leak: 21-year-old Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who took to online groups to share military secrets.

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32 comments

  1. Fake news more interested in the kid than the contents of the leak. Which, btw prove we are being lied to. Enjoy

  2. Isn’t the question why it took a leak to know we have boots on the ground in Ukrainian? The lies are the issue

  3. The story’s less about this young patriot being arrested and more about how the government is allowed to lie to you. That’s the real story here wake up people.

  4. Look at what was leaked, not who did it.

  5. My name is Jessica Lynn Maldonado and I want to speak for we the people on what I have found out about our corrupted government

  6. I have the pics I have the flash drives where u tryd to hide the Americans money from us I also know a lot of other things about our corrupt government and have been trying to contact news and also army we r in trouble in Illinois and I have not heard from one person

  7. Well now he gets to go to jail

  8. Don't blame young people… 💯…. y'all old heads just dumb 💯… let man go and hire them.. and pay them because they're alot smarter then you old heads … Apparently 😊💯

  9. Lies. American government saw how much of a threat he was to the biden administration and how they are non stop lying to us and he tried to save us but making it look like hes some horrible guy. But in reality hes one of the biggest patriots of all time. He litterally tried to save the american people not the corrupt american government

  10. They should implement document level security. Only people with access should be able to decrypt the document and use it.

  11. Timothy McVeigh gone too soon.

  12. It's never the governments fault blame a 21 year old who they gave the keys to the car . It's the systems fault

  13. Love how the government doesn't take any responsibility for the leak or the lies they have been keeping it from us . How about why a young kid has such access too this material . 😢

  14. How old is the knob speaking?

  15. This is a police/surveillence state the US is not free. Riot.

  16. Who is the criminal here ? Shoot the pianist….

  17. ALL of you are missing the important part… WE ARE AT WAR! This punk himself doesn't matter!

  18. This Courtney lady stumbles to much with her words.

  19. Click bait journalism! Do your research! 🙄 With clearance, of course you can print! You're trained to keep it in a classified folder, lock it up and NOT remove it. No, they don't search everyone every day. That's ludicrous! Most people with clearance are both honest and federal contractors to "keep government small." Most traitors have been contractors and there are still very few. UGH!

  20. FYI, the Fall of the Roman Empire also came form within.

  21. Salute an American hero being arrested

  22. Will GOP call for a firing squad? 🤔

  23. War Pigs have the power…..

  24. Um, there's a huge difference between this case and the Snowden case. Teixeira wanted to impress his friends (who were teenagers) and Snowden was trying to alert the American people about illegal spying activity by the govt on citizens. HUGE difference.

  25. Our democrat ran government is a fkn joke. Has been for the past 20+ years and only gets worse w Biden

  26. Another terrorist is born…… strait to the slammer 😢😮😅😊😂

  27. Its not the system, its the bad actor.

  28. Traitor, Treason. 15 years lockup. Amen 🙏.

  29. Throw the book at him. I don’t want to hear the judge say “he reminds me of myself”, “he has his whole life ahead of him”, “it was a simple mistake”, “boys will be boys” or any crap that you don’t say when a young black man is on trial.