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## Video: Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty to Massive Leak of Pentagon Secrets

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_Published 2024-03-04. The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman at the center of one of the most significant leaks of national-security documents in a decade pleaded guilty on Monday to posting dozens of highly classified intelligence records in an online chat group._


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## Transcript

This morning Jack Sarah a member of the US Air National Guard pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to our National Defense admitting his guilt in open court to every County was charged with last June just guilty plea brings accountability and it brings a measure of closure to a chapter that created profound harms for a nation's security by the start of 2022. He was unlawfully removing from a secure location classified information information that was clearly marked as secret top secret and seisei or secure compartmented information is used to denote some of our nation's most closely guarded Secrets his position of trust and access hundreds of classified documents.

He then posted them on a social media platform platform that allows anyone who wants to join and it is a place where people can exchange voice messages text messages videos in a fortunate have over 100 million users decided to post of our nation's most guarded secrets.

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