The National Guard airman accused of leaking classified Pentagon dossiers in a chatroom made a panicked final call to his gamer friends before he was arrested. He served in the same wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as his stepfatherTeixeira's stepfather, Master Sgt. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira would be charged with the unauthorized removal of classified national defense information. Teixeira's specialty in the Air National Guard was as a 'cyber transport systems specialist,' essentially an IT specialist responsible for military communications networks, including their cabling and hubs. 'A lot of people were wary of him,' said Brooke Cleathero, who also attended middle school and high school with Teixeira.

Source: The Times April 15, 2023 06:21 UTC