Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira went by way of with a plea deal at a Thursday court docket martial, in accordance with The Related Press.
Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard, pleaded responsible to army obstructing justice costs, in accordance with the AP, with an absence of jail time and dishonorable discharge being concerned in his plea settlement. A choose accepted the deal.
Teixeira, who leaked categorized details about U.S. battle technique in Ukraine on the social platform Discord, mentioned Thursday that he had been “exposing and correcting the lies that were perpetrated by President Biden and force-fed to the American people” on the Russia-Ukraine battle.
“I believe the Department of Justice was politicized against President Trump and myself,” Teixeira mentioned, in accordance with the AP.
Late final 12 months, a U.S. District Courtroom choose sentenced Teixeira to fifteen years in jail. Teixeira had additionally pleaded responsible final March to 6 counts of willful retention and transmission of categorized data following his posting of greater than 100 categorized paperwork overlaying subjects together with Ukraine and intelligence gathered by way of spying on allies.
Prosecutors for the army had pushed for the suitability of obstructing justice and disobeying orders costs, saying the army’s “absolute core” is obeying orders. Teixeira’s lawyer, Lt. Col. Bradley Poronsky, pushed for the cost of obstructing justice to be dismissed or lead to no punishment on Monday, AP reported.
Each side ultimately got here to a plea settlement through which the disobeying orders cost was dropped, per the AP.
The Hill has reached out to the Air Power for remark.
