This Thursday, a young man was arrested on suspicion of leaking US government secrets revealing intelligence documents about Ukraine.

In the morning, President Joe Biden had expected the investigation to find the person responsible for the revelation to be approaching a good result and had already expected a member of the National Guard to be involved.

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“A full investigation is underway, with the intelligence community and the Department of Justice, and they are getting close to” some conclusions, Biden said during a visit to Ireland.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States was “reviewing the national security implications of the leak,” prompting a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.

In the wake of the leak, the Defense Department has also taken steps to further restrict access to this type of sensitive information, Jean-Pierre told reporters in Biden’s entourage.

An operation in which the FBI took part arrested 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, a member of the United States National Guard.

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United States Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest “in connection with an investigation into the alleged unauthorized extraction, preservation and transfer of classified national defense information.”

Teixeira is said to be an aviator and in addition to being the leader of a chat room on the Discord platform, he is said to have shared the documents there for months.

American television broadcasted aerial footage showing the suspect, dressed in red shorts and hands behind his back, being placed in an unmarked vehicle by heavily armed officers in a wooded area in North Dighton, Massachusetts. ).

Teixeira was scheduled to appear in federal court for the District of Massachusetts.

The private chat he created was called Thug Shaker Central and there he called himself OG, there would have been a total of 24 members who would come from Russia and Ukraine and were united by their “mutual love of weapons, military equipment and God”.

OG told members of the group he spent part of the day “in a secure facility that banned cell phones and other electronic devices,” according to The Washington Post.

He first transcribed the contents of the classified documents to share with the group, but then began taking photos and told other members not to share them, the paper reported.

OG took a “dark view of government” and “spoke of the United States, and in particular the law enforcement and intelligence community, as a sinister force seeking to suppress and keep its citizens in the dark,” the Post said, citing one of the group members.