Overview

• Jack Teixeira, a 22-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member, pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents, including sensitive information about the war in Ukraine.
• Teixeira accepted a plea deal that includes a prison sentence between 11 and nearly 17 years, a $50,000 fine, and 36 months of supervised release.
• The leaks, which were shared on the social media platform Discord, exposed secret assessments of Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S. military capabilities, and intelligence on allies and adversaries.
• Prosecutors agreed not to charge Teixeira with further violations of the Espionage Act in exchange for his guilty plea and cooperation in a debrief with intelligence officials.
• The breach prompted the Pentagon to tighten controls to safeguard classified information and disciplined members found to have intentionally failed to take required action about Teixeira's suspicious behavior.