How did the FBI get to the culprit of the Pentagon leak? NYT: Documents were photographed in the family kitchen

Last week, several hundred secret Pentagon documents were leaked online, which touched on sensitive issues related to, among others, With . The BBC recently revealed the details of one of the declassified documents. It shows that special forces from Western countries are to be stationed on Ukrainian territory (later it was reported that these were mainly forces protecting diplomatic posts in connection with the ongoing military operations).

The Department of Defense ruled that the leak was a willful crime. On Thursday, they arrested Jack Teixeira, who is suspected of leaking confidential documents. He’s a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He appeared in a Boston court on Friday, where he was charged and remanded in custody. However, many myths have grown up around his detention. They mainly concerned who, how and why identified Jack Teixeira as the culprit of the leak.

USA. This is how the FBI got to the perpetrator of the leak of secret documents from the Pentagon

that the success of catching Teixeira was claimed by several people. First online detective group Bellingcat on April 9 publicly identified a private Discord server where Teixeira allegedly posted secret documents. The New York Times, on the other hand, had match photos of the Teixeira family’s kitchen, where top-secret documents were allegedly photographed, to his profile in . Moreover, the journalists of this editorial office were waiting at Teixeira’s home in Dighton when the FBI arrived there – shortly after the 21-year-old was officially declared a suspect.

Everything indicates, however, that the American services were a step ahead of the amateurs. “It should be obvious, but no, our story naming the person responsible for the Pentagon/Discord leak didn’t help the feds find him. They knew at least a day before we identified him– wrote Aric Toler from Bellingcat, who was one of the first to cover the leak.

The Guardian reports that the indictment, signed by FBI Special Agent Patrick Lueckenhoff, does not detail what led to Teixeira’s capture, but confirms that investigators, who were conducting their own investigations, had already tracked down the suspect. describes that The FBI used phone records from the online social media app Discord to unmask US airman suspected of leaking top-secret military information.

The indictment – quoted by “The Guardian” – also pointed to other leads that the FBI had. American services were to hear the testimony of one of the users of the so-called. group Thug Shaker Central on Discord on April 10, who said that Teixeira was posting classified material as early as December 2022. It was also revealed that Teixeira used his government search for the word “leak” on April 6. It is also indicated that the accused started taking the documents home and photographing them after he was “concerned that he might be discoveredbecause he transcribes them on the spot.