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Eventual release," the memorandum continued.Teixeira is also currently negotiating a disposition to his parallel, but related, military prosecution, the memo said.MORE: Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira agrees to accept 16-year prison sentenceAccording to the signed plea agreement filed with the court, Teixeira agreed to plead guilty to all six counts charging him with willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.Teixeira "accessed and printed hundreds of classified documents" and posted images of them on Discord prior to his arrest in April 2023, a prosecutor said during the plea hearing.As part of his plea agreement, Teixeira must sit for a debrief with the Defense Department and the Justice Department and give back any sensitive materials that might remain in his possession.PHOTO: Jack Teixeira seen in this undated photo from his instagram account. (Jack Teixeira seen in this undated photo from his instagram account.)Federal prosecutors have made clear Teixeira had no business peering at classified information because his low-level job did not require it."The defendant’s job was to troubleshoot computer workstations," Assistant United States Attorney Jason Casey said during a March hearing.Still, Casey said, Teixeira accessed "hundreds" of classified documents inside the secure facility where he worked and "purposefully removed classified documents and information despite admonishments from his superiors to stop."Teixeira has admitted in court to knowing the documents were marked classified.Without mentioning specifics, federal prosecutors said Teixeira exposed information about the compromise by a foreign adversary of

Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who prosecutors said "perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history," was sentenced to 15 years in prison.The prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release.Judge Indira Talwani issued the sentence on Tuesday in Boston federal court.Teixeira pleaded guilty in March to six counts of willfully retaining and transmitting national defense information.PHOTO: Jack Teixeira seen in this undated photo from his instagram account. (Jack Teixeira seen in this undated photo from his instagram account.)Joshua S. Levy, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, whose office prosecuted the case, said the "significant sentence sends a powerful message to every individual who holds a top-secret clearance.""I expect that starting tomorrow, Jack Teixeira's name will be mentioned when people are trained about the gravity of a top-secret clearance and the consequences if you leak information," Levy said at a press briefing following the sentencing.Levy said Teixeira "abused his position of trust" and put himself above his country when he exploited his top-secret clearance and "made the deliberate choice" for over a year to access hundreds of classified documents and share them on Discord."Today, Mr. Teixeira has paid a very heavy price for the laws he broke and for the incredible damage that he caused," Levy said, noting that it could take several years to know the full extent of the damage.FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement that the sentence is

In court Tuesday that 11 years was sufficient.“It is a significant, harsh and difficult sentence, one that will not be easy to serve,” Bachrach said. “It will serve as an extreme deterrent to anyone particularly young servicemen. That is enough to keep them deterred from committing serious conduct.”Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, had pleaded guilty in March to six counts of the willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. That came nearly a year after he was arrested in the most consequential national security leak in years.The 22-year-old admitted that he illegally collected some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and shared them with other users on the social media platform Discord.When Teixeira pleaded guilty, prosecutors said they would seek a prison term at the high end of the sentencing range. But the defense wrote in their sentencing memorandum earlier that the 11 years is a “serious and adequate to account for deterrence considerations and would be essentially equal to half the life that Jack has lived thus far.”His attorneys described Teixeira as an autistic, isolated individual who spent most of his time online, especially with his Discord community. They said his actions, though criminal, were never meant to “harm the United States.” He also had no prior criminal record.“Instead, his intent was to educate his friends about world events to make certain they were not misled by misinformation,” the attorneys wrote. “To Jack, the Ukraine war was his generation’s World War II or Iraq, and he needed someone to share the experience with.”Prosecutors, though, had countered that Teixeira does not suffer from an intellectual disability that prevents him from knowing right from wrong. They argued that Teixeira’s post-arrest diagnosis as having “mild, high-functioning” autism “is of questionable relevance in these proceedings.”Teixeira, who was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, worked as a cyber transport systems specialist, which is essentially an information technology specialist responsible for military communications networks. He remains in the Air National Guard in an unpaid status, an Air Force official said.Authorities said he