Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member who leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine in a Discord chatroom, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges at his court-martial on March 13.
The prosecution argued before Judge Vicki Marcus that Teixeira was intent on obstructing the FBI’s investigation and was scared because he knew he had done something wrong.
Teixeira took a plea deal, admitting that he destroyed a cellphone, computer hard drive, and an iPad with a hammer after seeing news reports about the leaked documents and that he told his friends to destroy messages they exchanged on a communication app….