The FBI arrested Jack Texeira on Thursday in connection with the leak of highly classified Pentagon documents.
Hired as a computer and communications specialist on a military base near Cape Cod, a historic city in New England, he published confidential information on a discussion group on the Discord platform, which subsequently circulated on d& #x27;other social networks.
Secret documents revealed US intelligence concerns about viability of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces. They also implied that Washington was collecting intelligence on its closest partners, notably Israel and South Korea.
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The affair embarrassed Washington and raised questions about possible security breaches, while the young soldier had a defense secret clearance, allowing him to access this critical information, despite his modest rank.
The Teixeira affair recalls, to a much lesser extent, the case of Edward Snowden, a service employee American intelligence agency which revealed in 2013 that the United States had a mass surveillance system around the world.
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