The Mass. Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of guns and said on social media that he would like to kill a “ton of people,” prosecutors said in arguing that Jack Teixeira should remain in jail.
But the judge at Teixeira's detention hearing put off an immediate decision whether he should be kept in custody until his trial or released to home confinement or under other conditions. Teixeira was led away from the court in handcuffs, black rosary beads around his neck, pending that ruling.
There are questions about why 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking top secret documents online, was approved for top security clearance, given his history. But Nadine Pellegrini, chief of national security division in the Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office, told the judge the information prosecutors submitted to the court about the defendant's threatening words and behavior"is not speculation, it is not hyperbole, nor is it the creation of a caricature. It is based on what we know to date … directly based upon the words and actions of this defendant.
He remains a grave threat to national security and a flight risk, prosecutors wrote, and investigators are still trying to determine whether he kept any physical or digital copies of classified information, including files that haven't already surfaced publicly. His lawyers are urging the judge to release him from jail, arguing in court papers filed Thursday that appropriate conditions can be set even if the court finds him to be a flight risk — such as confinement at his father's home and location monitoring.The defense said Teixeira no longer has access to any top-secret information and accused prosecutors of providing “little more than speculation that a foreign adversary will seduce Mr.
Prosecutors wrote that Teixeira, who owned multiple guns, repeatedly had"detailed and troubling discussions about violence and murder" on the platform where authorities say he shared the documents. In February, he told another person that he was tempted to make a minivan into an"assassination van," prosecutors wrote.
He applied again over the next two years, and cited in his 2020 application after joining the Guard"his position of trust in the United States government as a reason he could be trusted to possess a firearm," prosecutors wrote.
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