Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking sensitive national defense information
(CNN) — The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of highly classified intelligence reports and other documents on social media pleaded guilty on Monday to willfully retaining and disseminating national defense information.
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Jack Teixeira, 22, pleaded guilty to all six counts he faced under the espionage act during a hearing Monday morning.
He previously pleaded not guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to national defense. But in a court filing last week, prosecutors in Boston asked for a so-called Rule 11 hearing – proceedings to discuss a change in plea.
Teixeira has been held in federal custody since his arrest in April.
Teixeira has also agreed to sit for a debrief with members of the intelligence community and the Department of Defense, court documents say, as well as turn over all relevant documents he has or knows the location of.
In exchange, prosecutors have said that they will ask a judge to impose a sentence of 200 months in prison, or over 16 years.
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