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Al Jazeera Staff

‘How on earth?’: Questions swirl around suspected US leaker

A courtroom sketch shows Jack Teixeira making his initial appearance before a US federal judge in Boston, April 14 [Margaret Small/Reuters]

Washington, DC – The suspected leaker of secret Pentagon documents does not appear to be connected to a foreign adversary of the United States, nor was he a whistleblower trying to expose perceived government misconduct.

Rather, 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who served in the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard, has been accused of sharing the information with members of a social media server to “discuss geopolitical affairs and current and historical wars”, the FBI said in a court document on Friday.

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