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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore in Falmouth, Massachusetts

‘A little kid trying to be important’: locals react to Pentagon leak suspect

The Cape Cod joint airbase is home to the 102nd intelligence wing and the Otis air national guard base.
The Cape Cod joint airbase is home to the 102nd intelligence wing and the Otis air national guard base. Photograph: Steve Heaslip/USA Today Network/Reuters

Locals living close to the sprawling military base in Cape Cod where 21-year-old Jack Teixeira worked for a US air force intelligence unit have been asking the same questions as everyone else.

Was his alleged leak of national security documents some kind of principled stand or an immature attempt to impress two dozen members of a closed chat group called Thug Shaker Central on Discord, a video game chat platform, that he lost control of?

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