Court-martial convenes for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who has already been sentenced to serve more than a decade in prison for leaking hundreds of classified secrets, appeared in front of a court-martial on Monday.
The disgraced member of the U.S. Air National Guard was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison last November after he pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to national defense.
He is appearing in front of a court-martial at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts on Monday, where he faces additional military charges.
The Air Force and Department of Justice determined in May 2024 that Teixeira had “committed violations of the” Uniform Code of Military Justice, while his attorneys have argued that the court-martial essentially amounts to prosecuting him twice for the same offense.
