Jack Teixeira (Massachusetts Air National Guard)

Case-file story

Timeline

1. 2019-09Enlists in the Air National Guard¹
2. 2021Granted TS//SCI clearance¹
3. 2022-01On or about this date, begins transmitting classified NDI on Discord¹
4. 2023-04Arrested and charged by criminal complaint¹
5. 2023-06Indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston¹
6. 2024-03Pleads guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of NDI¹
7. 2024-11-12Sentenced to 15 years¹

Verified facts

• Served with the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis ANG Base as a Cyber Defense Operations Journeyman. His primary responsibility was maintaining and troubleshooting other members' classified workstations.¹
• He conducted hundreds of searches for classified documents unrelated to his duties.¹
• On two separate occasions, superiors warned him not to take notes on classified intelligence and to stop conducting "deep dives."¹
• He transmitted information by typing it into an online platform and also posted images of hundreds of classified documents.¹
• Before his arrest he destroyed and disposed of his electronic devices, deleted his online accounts, and encouraged online acquaintances to do the same. (The DOJ release misdates this as "April 2022"; the arrest was April 2023.)¹
• The government's sentencing memo sought 200 months under a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement with an agreed range of 132–200 months.²
• Docket: United States v. Teixeira, No. 1:23-cr-10159 (D. Mass.).³

Sources

1. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-air-national-guardsman-sentenced-15-years-prison-unlawfully-disclosing-classified · Wayback
2. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.258389/gov.uscourts.mad.258389.144.0.pdf · Wayback
3. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67505225/united-states-v-teixeira/ · Wayback