Prosecutors want Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira to serve nearly 17 years in prison after he shared highly classified military documents on Russia’s war in Ukraine on the social media platform Discord.
Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested in April 2023 from his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, at the age of 21. In March, he pleaded guilty to six counts of the willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act.
Prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that Teixeira “perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history.”…