Federal prosecutors warned that if freed, Jack Teixeira could inflict “extraordinary” damage on the US by leaking more classified documents.
, arguing that he could cause “extraordinary” damage by releasing even more classified documents.
Teixeira is due back in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts, later Thursday for a detention hearing. Prosecutors said that the defendant’s lawyers have hinted that they will ask the judge to release him to his father’s home.Federal prosecutors warned that if freed, Air National Guardsman and accused leaker Jack Teixeira could inflict “extraordinary” damage on the US by sharing even more classified documents.
In February, he told another person that he was tempted to make a minivan into an “assassination van,” prosecutors wrote.
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