{"id":15617,"date":"2023-07-18T02:57:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2023-07-18T02:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:57:41","slug":"citing-trump-case-pentagon-leak-suspect-teixeira-urges-judge-to-release-him-while-he-awaits-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"Citing Trump case, Pentagon leak suspect Teixeira urges judge to release him while he awaits trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Massachusetts Air National Guard member<\/a> accused of leaking secret military papers challenged a judge\u2019s decision that he remain behind bars, pointing Monday to the pretrial release of former President Donald Trump<\/a> and others charged in high-profile classified documents cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A magistrate judge who ruled in May that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira must remain behind bars while the case plays out found that releasing him would pose a risk that he would attempt to flee the country or obstruct justice. Teixeira\u2019s lawyers are now asking a different judge to reverse that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In court papers, the defense attorneys argued that Teixeira has no financial ability or incentive to flee, and claimed the government \u201cgreatly overexaggerates Mr. Teixeira\u2019s risk to national security.\u201d Teixeira\u2019s lawyers noted that prosecutors did not seek to detain Trump \u2014 or his co-defendant, Walt Nauta \u2014 even though the former president and his valet \u201cpossess extraordinary means to flee the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFormer President Trump and The Trump Organization own properties in multiple foreign countries, and former President Trump has access to a private plane. Yet, the risk of flight posed by their knowledge of national security information, and their abnormal ability to flee, didn\u2019t even result in a request that either surrender their passport,\u201d Teixeira\u2019s lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teixeira\u2019s attorneys wrote that the \u201cdisparate approach\u201d in these cases \u2014 which are both charged under the Espionage Act \u2014 shows that the government\u2019s \u201cargument for Mr. Teixeira\u2019s detention on this basis is illusory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teixeira pleaded not guilty<\/a> last month to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. Each count is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has also pleaded not guilty<\/a> to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and refusing government demands to give them back. While Trump was not required to surrender a passport \u2014 prosecutors said he was not considered a flight risk \u2014 the magistrate judge directed the former president to not discuss the case with certain witnesses. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and attacked the prosecution as politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teixeira, of North Dighton, has been behind bars since his April arrest<\/a> on charges stemming from the most consequential intelligence leak in years. His lawyers have suggested that he be released to his father and largely confined to his home with location monitoring and no access to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teixeira is accused of sharing classified military documents about\u00a0Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and other sensitive national security topics on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities say Teixeira, who enlisted in the Air National Guard in 2019, began around January sharing military secrets with other Discord users \u2014 first by typing out classified documents and then sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings. Teixeira worked as a a \u201ccyber transport systems specialist,\u201d essentially an IT specialist responsible for military communications networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities have provided few details about an alleged possible motive, but accounts of those in the online private chat group where the documents were disclosled have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge\u2019s decision to detain Teixeira came after Justice Department lawyers revealed in court filings a history of disturbing online remarks<\/a>. He wrote in November that he would \u201ckill a (expletive) ton of people\u201d if he had his way, because it would be \u201cculling the weak minded.\u201d Prosecutors also argued he said he may still have material that hasn\u2019t been released, which could be of \u201ctremendous value to hostile nation states that could offer him safe harbor and attempt to facilitate his escape from the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teixeira\u2019s lawyers wrote that there is no evidence their client \u201cever carried his online conversations into reality or ever endangered any person in his community.\u201d They also said there\u2019s no evidence to suggest that Teixeira is so valuable that a foreign adversary would be willing to smuggle him out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking secret military papers challenged a judge\u2019s decision that he remain behind bars, pointing Monday to the pretrial release of former President Donald Trump and others charged in high-profile classified documents cases. A magistrate judge who ruled in May that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira must remain behind bars while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[9876,1500,1230,9877],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-during-trial","tag-pentagon","tag-trump","tag-urges-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}