It was a private online group with posts about video games, God, guns, memes - and highly classified US files.

The suspect at the centre of the leak that has embarrassed the US and its allies has been named as Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21.

In a chatroom called Thug Shaker Central on Discord - a social media platform popular with gamers - he was reportedly known as "OG".

Now he faces charges under the Espionage Act.

Mr Teixeira only graduated in 2020 from high school in his hometown of North Dighton, Massachusetts.

A year earlier he enlisted in the Massachusetts Air National Guard - which is a reserve of the US Air Force - joining the 102nd Intelligence Wing.

 

Mr Teixeira was promoted last July to Airman 1st Class - a relatively junior position - and was based at Otis Air National Guard Base in western Cape Cod.

 

1 hour ago, Social Media said:

 

There is a lot more to this story. In a few days we will know a lot more.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65270164

On 4/14/2023 at 12:58 PM, vandeventer said:

There is a lot more to this story. In a few days we will know a lot more.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65270164

You're right. It turns out that, like Kyle rittenhouse, he was a weird loner obsessed with guns.

On 4/16/2023 at 8:31 AM, placeholder said:

You're right. It turns out that, like Kyle rittenhouse, he was a weird loner obsessed with guns.

Indeed, he was not only into guns but according to new court documents he wanted to plan a mass murder. Converting an SUV into a killing machine with guns.

 

 

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.255930/gov.uscourts.mad.255930.19.0_3.pdf