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.
00:00 This morning, Jack Teixeira, a member of the U.S. Air National Guard, pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to our national defense,
00:12 admitting his guilt in open court to every count he was charged with last June.
00:18 This guilty plea brings accountability, and it brings a measure of closure to a chapter that created profound harms for our nation's security.
00:27 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 SCI.
00:40 SCI, or Secure Compartmented Information, is used to denote some of our nation's most closely guarded secrets.
00:46 Mr. Teixeira exploited his position of trust and accessed hundreds of classified documents.
00:53 He then posted them on a social media platform, a platform that allows anyone who wants to join,
01:00 and it's a place where people can exchange voice messages, text messages, videos, and it purports to have over 100 million users.
01:09 That's where Jack Teixeira decided to post some of our nation's most guarded secrets.
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