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Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to say Friday if others will also be charged over the leak of classified US documents after a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was arrested for allegedly spilling the intel online.
Jack Teixeira, who faced a Massachusetts court earlier on Friday for the first time, is accused of accessing classified materials at the Cape Cod base where he worked before sharing them with members of his private Discord chat group.
Prosecutors allege the documents — including some that detailed secrets of the Ukraine war — then spread like wildfire across social media.
Asked if the feds were looking at any other suspects in the case, Garland told reporters in Washington DC: “I’m really not able to talk anymore. It’s an ongoing investigation.”
“This is not just about taking home documents, that is of course illegal itself. This is about the transmission, both the unlawful retention and the transmission of the document,” Garland continued.
“There are very serious penalties associated with that.”
The attorney general stressed the national security implications of the case — and vowed to send a message.
