New Delhi: A 21-year-old air national guardsman was arrested under suspicion of leaking highly-confidential defence government documents, laying bare the millitary secrets.

He will appear before a court in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday (local time), reported BBC. While the Guardian quoted the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, confirming Jack’s arrest and said, “His arrest was confirmed by the US attorney general, Merrick Garland “in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defence information.”

The FBI agents arrested Jack Teixeira from his house in rural Massachusetts. The 21-yr-old is an IT specialist in the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts National Guard who joined the duty in 2019 and was responsible for keeping the internet working at airbases.

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Teixeira has been found to be an admin of the online chat group where the documents first emerged. Media reports stated that the documents were leaked in March or perhaps a bit earlier than that but the news came into existence only after the New York Times reported it last week.

The leak has caused a major damage to the US as the documents contained crucial information on Ukraine millitary vulnerabilities. This has also upset its allies Israel, South Korea and Turke as the leaked material also included information on these three countries.

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As per experts, Teixeria may attract a case under the Espionage Act. Having taking the severity as well as the damage caused to the US image, the youth is likely to face imprisonment for over a decade but that entirely depends on the charges brought against him.

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