Jack Teixeira: Releasing US leaks suspect a security risk, prosecutors say

US prosecutors accidental Jack Teixeira, the airman charged with leaking concealed subject information, whitethorn inactive person entree to classified material.

They said the 21-year-old should stay successful jailhouse portion awaiting proceedings arsenic helium poses a hazard to nationalist security.

Prosecutors volition marque their lawsuit to a justice astatine a proceeding connected Thursday.

Investigators are inactive moving to find however Mr Teixeira allegedly leaked dozens of files and whether helium kept immoderate carnal oregon integer copies.

The documents, which archetypal appeared successful the online chat country Discord, included delicate accusation astir US allies and the warfare successful Ukraine.

Mr Teixeira's ineligible squad person not commented connected the case. They are expected to reason that helium should not beryllium detained earlier trial.

In a 48-page tribunal filing connected Wednesday, the justness section outlined their statement for keeping Mr Teixeira down bars.

"There simply is nary information oregon operation of conditions that tin guarantee the suspect volition not further disclose further accusation inactive successful his cognition oregon possession," prosecutors wrote.

"The harm the suspect has already caused to the US nationalist information is immense. The harm the suspect is inactive susceptible of causing is extraordinary."

In the filing, prosecutors said Mr Teixeira had accessed ample amounts of delicate accusation which "far exceeds what has been publically disclosed".

Prosecutors besides said that, aft his arrest, the FBI recovered a tablet, a laptop and an Xbox gaming console astatine his location that had been smashed and placed successful a dumpster.

They besides alleged Mr Teixeira had a past of making convulsive threats. He discussed unit and execution connected Discord and was besides prone to making "racial threats" connected the platform, the prosecutors wrote.

The filing besides disclosed that Mr Teixeira was suspended during precocious schoolhouse erstwhile a classmate overheard him discussing Molotov cocktails and different weapons.

Two commanders astatine Mr Teixeira's unit, the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron successful Massachusetts, person been enactment connected permission pending an investigation.

They person temporarily mislaid entree to classified systems and information, the US Air Force said successful a statement. Their names person not been released.

The Air Force told the BBC's US quality spouse CBS that much members of Mr Teixeira's portion could look suspension oregon removal arsenic the probe into the leaked documents continued.

The portion was relieved of its intelligence-gathering duties earlier this month.

The leaked quality worldly archetypal appeared successful a Discord chat room, which Mr Teixeira is said to person helped administer.

The documents were past shared extracurricular the chat country by immoderate of its members, the FBI said.

The bureau earlier said Mr Teixeira held "top secret" information clearance since 2021, and that helium would person "signed a beingness binding non-disclosure agreement" to instrumentality connected his relation successful the US Air Force.

Mr Teixeira faces up to 15 years successful situation implicit charges of unauthorised transmission of defence information.

He is besides charged with the unauthorised removal and retention of classified documents.