Pentagon Leaker Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice

A court-martial judge sentenced him to dishonorable discharge with no jail time beyond what he is currently serving.
Pentagon Leaker Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice
Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira (R) in U.S. District Court in Boston on April 14, 2023. Margaret Small via AP
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Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member who leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine in a Discord chatroom, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges at his court-martial on March 13.

The prosecution argued before Judge Vicki Marcus that Teixeira was intent on obstructing the FBI’s investigation and was scared because he knew he had done something wrong.