Jack Teixeira: US airman sentenced to 15 years in prison

Teixeira leaked highly classified Pentagon documents to an online platform popular with gamers.

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Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty to the wilful retention and transmission of national defence information in March.

While he worked at an Air National Guard base, Teixeira obtained materials including maps, satellite images and intelligence on US allies, and then posted those documents to an online platform popular with gamers.

Among the documents he shared was confidential information about the war in Ukraine.

Prosecutors asked US District Court Judge Indira Talwani to impose a 16 and a half-year sentence on Teixeira. His defence lawyers asked for an 11-year sentence.

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