Not only was he stealing and leaking military secrets online, but Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old airman accused of being the mole who stole hundreds of classified documents from the Pentagon, he had a veritable arsenal in his bedroom, including an automatic type rifle, and wanted to shoot in crowded places. This is what emerges from the papers filed by the prosecutors with the Massachusetts District Court to request that the Massachusetts Air National airman be denied release on bailon which the judges must decide by today.
In particular, it is underlined that Teixeira had been suspended from high school in 2018 after a schoolmate heard him talking about “Molotov cocktails, guns at school and racist threats”. A rhetoric that the young man continued to use on social media, the prosecutors still write, reporting that Wrote in November of wanting to kill ‘tons of people’ and that this would be a way of “instructing weaker minds”. Then in February he had asked for advice on which weapon to use to shoot from an SUV, saying he intended to shoot in “a crowded urban situation”.
Teixeira is also accused of having tried to destroy evidence that pointed to him as responsible of what is considered the most serious leak of military equipment of the last decade. Indicted under the Espionage Act for acquiring and transmitting national defense information and classified documents without authorization, the young man faces at least up to 25 years in prison.
In addition to the criminal investigation, the criminal investigation is also going on to understand how it was possible that the simple airman, who works as a computer technician in an intelligence unit that has the task of assembling information dossiers, was able to steal undisturbed for months so much material. And the Air Force yesterday announced that the two commanders of the unit where Teixeira worked were suspended.